BIGGEST EARTHQUAKESJack Moore

MAP OF BIG EARTHQUAKES

Big and Significant EarthquakesConvergent Boundaries

Divergent Boundaries

FOR A BETTER VIEW OF EARTHQUAKES

TOP 10 LIST BEFORE SEARCHING ONLINE South American West Coast Greece Alaska India Japan Southern Mexico Indonesia (Philippines, New Guinea, and Sumatra) Southern Japan Caribbean Mideastern

UPDATED LIST

Alaska w/ Aleutian Islands Western South America (Mostly Chile) Indonesia (Philippines, New Guinea, and Sumatra) Japan Himilayas (Especially Nepal) Central America (Southern Mexico to Panama Canal) Southern Europe (Around Greece) Japan San Francisco And L.A. Metropolitan Areas New Zealand And To The Northeast Of It

WHAT NEW TOOLS OR TECHNIQUES ARE SEISMOLOGISTS USING TO HELP THEM BETTER PREDICT EARTHQUAKES?

1,500 Ton presses QuakeSat created by Quakefinder Interferometric-Synthetic Aperture

Radar (InSAR) Satellites equipped with Infrared

Radiation

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT EARTHQUAKES AND EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION?

Earthquakes can’t be fully predicted right now but we can estimate when a new one will occur. For example, scientists think there’s a 2%, 10%, or 50% chance of an earthquake occurring in the San Andres fault. But scientists think they will be able to predict earthquakes soon.

WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION?

Movement of the plates Heat Past Earthquakes Type of boundary

WHERE ON EARTH DO MOST OF THE REALLY BIG EARTHQUAKES STRIKE?

Almost every big earthquake has occurred on convergent boundaries. For example, the recent Japan earthquake was on a convergent boundary. A few of the small ones also occurred on transform boundaries.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/11aug_earthquakes/

http://www.google.com/imghp http://serc.carleton.edu/eet/

earthquakes2/all_parts.html http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/

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