<p> Earthquake Web Quest Extra Credit – Due February 25, 2013</p><p>Name: </p><p>Class Name:</p><p>Date: </p><p>Directions: Download Web Quest, so that you can type your answers onto the Word document. Please answer questions in complete sentences. Use a different font or color so that your answers are easily visible. When you have completed the web quest, please email assignment to Mrs. Smith. [email protected] </p><p>1. Click onto Earthquake Myths at: http://www.usgs.gov/faq/index.php?action=show&cat=113</p><p>Pick two of the myths listed on the USGS Earthquake Myths page linked above. Tell me the myths and the correct answer to the myths.</p><p> a. Myth #1:</p><p> b. Myth #2:</p><p>2. Using the USGS Glossary, http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/ define the following terms.</p><p>A. seismograph</p><p>B. seismogram</p><p>C. epicenter</p><p>D. hypocenter (focus)</p><p>E. P wave</p><p>F. S wave</p><p>H. surface wave</p><p>I. love wave</p><p>3. Click onto Measuring Earthquakes at: http://www.usgs.gov/faq/index.php?action=show&cat=113</p><p> a. Briefly describe how earthquakes are recorded.</p><p> b. What is the difference between intensity and magnitude? c. What was the first instrument to ever record an earthquake? How did it work?</p><p>4. Earthquake History: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/today/</p><p> a. Look up today’s date. What happened on this day in Earthquake History?</p><p> b. Look up your birthday. Summarize what happened in Earthquake History on your birthday (even if it wasn’t the same year).</p><p>5. Click onto Earthquake Preparedness: http://www.usgs.gov/faq/index.php?action=show&cat=113</p><p> a. What three things should you not do during an earthquake?</p><p> b. What three things should you do during an earthquake?</p><p> c. What three things can you do to plan ahead and prepare for an earthquake?</p><p>6. Earthquake Trivia: Go to the link and search out the answers to the following trivia questions. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/facts.php</p><p> a. What is the largest recorded earthquake in the world?</p><p> b. What is the largest recorded earthquake in the United States?</p><p> c. How many detectable earthquakes happen each year? How many actually cause damage?</p><p> d. How many earthquakes does southern California have each year?</p><p> e. What fault is responsible for creating earthquakes in the central U.S.? Explain why these earthquakes seem much larger in the Midwest compared to those in the West.</p><p> f. Which two states have the least number of earthquakes? </p><p> g. Which state has the most earthquakes?</p>