Recent Earthquakes

Today we are studying Recent Earthquakes in our area and the world.

Start by copying all the questions to Appleworks.

1. Go Here and find an earthquake that happened in the last hour (will be a red square). What time did it hit, what was its magnitude, and where was it?

2. Download the Google Earth KML file for the event and take a picture of the place it hit (Apple-shift-4 and drag your mouse)


3. Go back here and find the largest earthquake (the one with the biggest square). What time did it hit, what was its magnitude, and where was it?

4. Look at the Waveforms for the earthquake and drag the waveforms into your Appleworks document.

5. Download the Google Earth KML file and take a picture of the location in Google Earth.