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Earthquakes
Why do earthquakes occur? It's not my fault!Click on the San Andreas Fault to get the dirt on the science behind earthquakes.
Learning Links
Visit the Exploratorium's exhibit "Life Along the Faultline".
Search for earthquake data from U.S.G.S.
Find
out how to measure an earthquake.
After an earthquake, people rely on specially trained dogs to find those trapped under debris.
Searching for victims at collapsed department store, Pacific Garden Mall. [C.E. Meyer, U.S. Geological Survey]
Activities
Be
a seisomograph.
When an earthquake
shakes ground that has been filled, it can behave like a liquid.
Try
this liquefaction
activity and see for yourself.
Click on the
slinky to learn how to model earthquake waves with your own slinky.
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