Earthquake Project
Part 1
Earthquakes: Use the following link to see daily earthquake activity.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=16.13026,-140.97656&extent=55.42901,-49.04297
Part 2
Volcanoes: use the following link to find the current volcano listing
http://volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm
Instructions:
- Read at least 4 or 5 of the personal accounts written by individuals who experienced an earthquake. Most of the eyewitness reports below were written many years ago, but some were recorded as recently as 1999. Select accounts from both long ago and from the last twenty years.
- Famous Earthquake Accounts: Mark Twain, Jack London, Charles Darwin, John Muir
- Eyewitness accounts of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
- Eyewitness accounts from Turkey quake
- Eyewitness to Disaster: California Earthquake Accounts (scroll down to find reports from the 1980's and 1990's)
- Use examples from the eyewitness accounts above to answer the following questions in your project journal / notebook OR in the space below.
- How did the earthquakes affect the personal lives of people you read about?