Slide 1 EARTHQUAKES Today weâll learn the answers to: 1. What are earthquakes? 2. How do earthquakes occur? 3. What are the effects of earthquake? 4. How can we protect…

1. PROJECT ON 2.  What is an earthquake ?  What can we do ? 3.  An earthquake also known as a quake, tremor or temblor  The seismicity, seismic activity of an…

JICA Training Course 2009 TSUNAMI NUMERICAL SIMULATION APPLIED TO TSUNAMI EARLY WARNING SYSTEM ALONG SUMATRA REGION Wiko Setyonegoro * ** *Meteorological Climatological and…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Plate Boundaries--The location were two plates meet. Divergent boundaries -- where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other. Convergent…

Slide 1 Plate Tectonics Slide 2 The Plate Tectonic Theory The plate tectonic theory states that the crust of the Earth is broken into several large sections known as crustal…

Slide 1Theory of Plate Tectonics Mission 1 Optical and infrared photography: photo images Magnetometer: magnetic field Gravimeter: gravity field Important discoveries: …

Slide 1 Slide 2 PAGES 292 TO 303 MR. ALTORFER SCIENCE EARTHQUAKES Slide 3 EARTHQUAKES A. What are earthquakes? 1. Earthquakes are vibrations in the ground that result from…

Slide 1 Measuring & Locating Earthquakes; Earthquakes & Society Slide 2 Biblical Reference There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places,…

Slide 1 Plate tectonics Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 Continent-continent collisions Slide 5 Himalaya Mountains Broad, diffuse zones of shallow-intermediate depth earthquakes Very…

Slide 1 Convergent Boundaries Slide 2 What happens at Convergent Boundaries? (Continental plate – Continental plate) A collision boundary (continental to continental) is…