Unit 4 Assignment

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Unit 4 Assignment: Earthquakes

Log in to “Layered Earth” and review the following sections:

Unit E: Earthquakes:

E1: Earthquakes and Faults (E1-1 – E1-3)

E2: Earthquakes and Waves (E2-1 – E2-3)

E3: The Strength of Earthquakes (E3-1 – E3-6)

E4: Seismic Waves and the Earth’s Interior (E4-1 – E4-3)

E5: Living with Earthquakes E5-1 – E5-7)

• Complete Unit E Activity: Locating the Epicenter of an Earthquake (Which is below)
• Submit the answers in a document in this area.

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Unit E Unit Activity

Locating the Epicenter of an Earthquake

Objective: To locate the epicenter of an earthquake

Materials Required: Everything you need for this exercise is included in the on-screen components.

You are a scientist working at the national office of the Earthquake Data Control Center. You can receive information from several scientific monitoring stations worldwide about earthquake activity. A large earthquake has recently occurred. Your task will be to analyze the data that comes to you from various locations around the globe and then determine the exact location of this earthquake.

On September 29, 2009, seismic monitoring stations around the Pacific Rim recorded seismograms of a large earthquake. Three seismic stations have sent you their data: Forrest in Australia, Tegucigalpa in Honduras, and Oita Nakatsue in Japan. Each seismic station has sent you three seismograms to help you analyze this earthquake. These seismograms represent motion in the east-west direction, the north-south direction, and the vertical direction. Recording seismograms to describe activity in three movements is relatively standard since the originating earthquake can send out seismic waves in many directions. With seismograms for three different directions, we can be reasonably sure that at least one, if not more, of those directions, will result in an excellent seismic wave trace as the earthquake passes us by.

Your task is to analyze the data you have been sent and then determine the earthquake’s origin. Below is the information that you received from the three seismic monitoring stations:

Station: Forrest, Western Australia. Print seismic data.

Station: Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Print seismic data.

Station: Oita Nakatsue, Japan. Print seismic data.

If you need help analyzing the station data, click the View Answers below.

1. What location (latitude and longitude) did you determine as the earthquake’s epicenter?

2. What landmasses are close to the earthquake location?

3. What physical landform is at the earthquake’s location?

4. The earthquake occurred between the boundary of which two tectonic plates?

Please and Thank You