Contents for Seismicity: How often do Earthquakes Occur
?
N.Z. Version, 1998
- Goals and Objectives
- Activity 1: Organizing a Search of the PEPP Earthquake Hypocenter Catalogue
- Activity 2: Plotting Local and Regional Earthquakes
- Activity 3: The Rate of Earthquake Occurrences
- Activity 4: Earthquake Frequency and the Gutenberg-Richter Law
Goals and Objectives
- Use the Internet and the PEPP Web Server to access and download earthquake
data.
- Organize and conduct a search in a database for information about earthquakes
using the Earthquake Hypocenter Catalogue.
- Analyze the frequency of earthquakes in your state and elsewhere both
qualitatively and quantitatively using the Gutenberg-Richter Law.
- Relate regional geologic structure to the seismic activity in your
region.
- Begin research on earthquake frequencies in space and time.
Teacher Note: You can use the PEPP MAPPER software for the activities
in this project, or you can do the activities by directly accessing the
PEPP Hypocenter Catalogue via the Internet.
Click below to chose instructions you wish to use.
DO THE PROJECT
USING MAPPER
DO THE PROJECT
WITHOUT MAPPER
This document was revised on June 29, 1998
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