Earthquake Topics — Intensity
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- A Comparison of Two Bay Area Earthquakes: 1989 v. 1906 — Investigate the shaking intensity and magnitude of these two earthquakes. (USGS)
- About Earthquakes — descriptions and graphics of earthquakes and their effects (Univ. of Nevada, Reno)
- Digital Online Geology - Earthquakes — Online version of "Earthquakes" by Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, and Dennis Tasa. This informative chapter about earthquakes has images, text, quizzes, and narrated animations explaining what happens when earthquakes occur. (TASA Graphic Arts)
- Earth Science Education Activities — a wealth of excellent hands-on activities for teaching about earthquakes, volcanoes, seismic waves, plate tectonics, earth structure, seismic waves, convection, seismometers and more! (Purdue Univ.)
- Isoseismal Maps (PDF) — learn the difference between intensity and magnitude and gain experience with contouring on maps (USGS)
- Living in Earthquake Country-Teaching Box — Explores how and why earthquakes cause damage, seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides, liquefaction, or structural failure. (DLESE)
- Living in Earthquake Country: A Teaching Box — 7 lessons with the goal of teaching students about how and why earthquakes cause damage. Explores seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides, liquefaction, or structural failure. (DLESE)
- Magnitude / Intensity Comparison — Explains the difference between magnitude and intensity. (USGS)
- Magnitude versus Intensity Lesson (PDF) — classroom lesson to teach the difference between earthquake magnitude and earthquake intensities (USGS)
- Measuring the Size of an Earthquake — How the size of an earthquake is measured. (USGS)
- Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, The — A description of the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. (USGS)
- Severity of an Earthquake, The — measuring earthquakes, online USGS general interest publication (USGS)
