Earthquakes Lesson Plan
Earth Science Unit: Earthquakes Lesson
This is week 5 of a 6 week hands-on unit study on Earth Science. Create a tsunami, build marshmallow structures that can withstand an earthquake, act out seismic waves, build and use a seismograph, and more! My lessons are geared toward 2nd-3rd grade level children and their siblings. These are lessons I created to do with a weekly homeschool co-op. We meet each week for 2 hours and have 14 children between the ages of 0-12. Even if you're not meeting with a co-op, you can still use these f...

The Richter Earthquake Magnitude Scale
The Richter Scale Information Page
Ever wonder what the difference is between a 5.0 and a 6.0 earthquake? Well, I'll explain the difference and give you some background on the man for which it is known. You may also wonder how to keep safe during an earthquake. I'll discuss that as well...plus much more!

Learn About Earthquakes - Latest Earthquakes Around the World
An earthquake is a trembling or a shaking movement of the Earth's surface. Earthquakes typically result from the movement of faults, quasi-planar zones of deformation within its uppermost layers. The word earthquake is also widely used to indicate the source region itself. The solid earth is in slow but constant motion (see plate tectonics) and earthquakes occur where the resulting stress exceeds the capacity of Earth materials to support Top strongest Earthquakes March 11, 2011: A magnitude...

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Earthquakes are measured using observations from seismometers. The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes larger than approximately 5 are reported for the entire globe. The more numerous earthquakes smaller than magnitude 5 reported by national seismological observatories are measured mostly on the local magnitude scale, also referred to as the Richter scale. These two scales are numerically similar over their range of validity. Magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes are mos...

EARTHQUAKE CENTRAL: THE BEST PLACE FOR THE LATEST EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 2002: JUST AFTER 12pm at SEATTLE'S...
...Lake Union, the water suddenly began sloshing hard enough to knock houseboats off their moorings. Water in pools, ponds, and bayous as far away as Texas and Louisiana splashed for nearly half an hour. The cause? Alaska's Denali Fault was on the move, violently shaking the state with a magnitude 7.9 earthquake. This was the largest inland earthquake in North America in almost 150 years. WHY does this affect you? Keep reading!