Use the website listed below to determine your assigned earthquakes damage, magnitude, and number of deaths. Summarize the decription of the earthquake in a paragraph and explain your thoughts and feelings as you read about this earthquake.

 On a sheet of paper, graph the number of deaths according to the scale of the earthquake on a sheet of paper. (use a bar graph).
 
Respond to at least one classmates post by comparing the earthquake you summarized to the earthquake your peer summarized. Be sure that your classmates summarized a DIFFERENT earthquake than you did.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/most_destructive.php

After reading the article in the link below, explain what  a normal, reverse, and strike-slip fault are in YOUR  OWN words.
http://geology.about.com/library/bl/blnutshell_fault-type.htm

Search the internet to determine why earthquakes occur. In the comment box below, use your own words to describe what happens, and be sure to cite the website that you are using. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE your answer.

Watch the video below. Explain what you saw and what you were thinking as you watched the video in the comment box below. (Write in complete sentences.)

Go to the website listed below. You are going to use the earthquake simulator. Be sure to follow the directions by choosing your type of ground, foundation, and earthquake. Repeat the process several times and be sure to read your "aftermath" results after each simulation.

http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/earthquake/interactive/interactive.html


What did you learn from this activity? What do you think is the best foundation and type of ground for buildings to be on? Why?