1. Turn to your new table of contents and correct the test date.
Due today: None /07/14
Find your new seat!
Turn to your new table of contents and correct the test date.
Make sure your earthquake video paper is in your notebook if you were here.
Take a copy of notes from the table.
Unit 5: Earthquake and Volcanoes
Test: Tuesday, 4/15
Important Dates
4/10
Reading Guide Due
Earthquake Quiz
4/11
Library Day
Study Guide given out in class
4/15
Test Unit 5: Volcanoes and Earthquakes
ACT
4/16
Unit 6 Vocabulary Due
Honors Unit 6 Current Event Due
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Activity
Standard
Grade 1
Japan’s Killer Quake
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Earthquake Notes

2. Earthquakes

4. What Is Seismology?
Seismology is the study of earthquakes and seismic waves that move through and around the earth.
Earthquake activity usually originates at faults that are located on plate boundaries or at fractures in the Earth.
A seismologist is a scientist who studies earthquake locations, magnitude, etc.

5. What is a fault?
an extended break in a body of rock, marked by the displacement of strata (layers) on either side of a particular surface.

6. Draw the chart on the blank side of your notes (5 min
Draw the chart on the blank side of your notes (5 min.) Complete the first three columns using the textbook at your table. (8 min)
Name of Fault
Type of Stress
(tension, compression, shear)
Vertical or Horizontal Movement
Picture

7. Name of Fault
Type of Stress
(shear, tension, compression)
Vertical or Horizontal Movement
Picture
Normal
Tension-pull
Vertical
Reverse (thrust)
Compression-push
Stike-Slip
(transform boundary)
Shear
Horizontal

8. Normal Fault Stress: Tension = pull away

9. Reverse Fault Stress: Compression = push together

10. Strike-slip Fault Stress: Shear = side-to-side movement

11. Reverse

13. Reverse

17. Focus and Epicenter

18. Focus and Epicenter
Focus – where the earthquake happens within the Earth
Epicenter – the spot on the surface above the focus

19. Stress causes the ground to be deformed.
An earthquake occurs when a rock passes its point of maximum elasticity.
its point of maximum elasticity.

20. Seismograph
This release is measured with a seismograph to determine distance, location and magnitude.

21. Triangulation-using time and distance from 3 different seismograms to locate the epicenter of an earthquake.

22. Triangulation between 3 Centers

23. Due today: None 4/8/14 Important Dates 4/10 Reading Guide Due
Earthquake Quiz
4/11
Library Day
Study Guide given out in class
4/15
Test Unit 5: Volcanoes and Earthquakes
ACT
4/16
Unit 6 Vocabulary Due
Honors Unit 6 Current Event Due

24. Triangulation-using time and distance from 3 different seismograms to locate the epicenter of an earthquake.

25. Triangulation between 3 Centers

26. P Waves
Primary wave. This is the fastest wave created from an earthquake and can move through both liquid and solid rock.
Moves by compressing the earth
These are the waves that animals can sometimes sense.

27. S Waves
Secondary wave.
S waves are slower than P waves and can only move through solid rock.
This wave moves rock up and down.

28. Surface Waves
These waves cause the most damage during an earthquake.

29. Reading the Seismogram
The P wave will be the first wave on the paper. P waves are the fastest seismic waves, so they will be the first ones recorded. The S waves will be second. These are usually bigger than the P waves.
The surface waves are the last, and often larger, waves marked on the seismogram. Surface waves travel a little slower than S waves so they arrive at the seismograph just after the S waves.

30. Seismogram

31. Earthquake Distance Chart

32. Interpreting Seismograms Worksheet
#1-3 as a class
#4-6 Popsicle Sticks

33. Sample Problem:
A seismic station is 3000 kilometers from the epicenter of an earthquake.
How long will it take P waves from this earthquake to reach the seismic station?

34. We know the distance (3000km)
We’re trying to find the time it will
take P waves to travel this distance.
Find 3 (really 3000km) on the bottom axis and, using a straight edge (a ruler) draw a line up to meet the P wave line.
Now, using the ruler, draw a line over to the left axis and read the travel time: 5 minutes and 40 seconds.
Notice that each small box is worth
20 seconds.
Now try the same problem in reverse:
It takes P waves 5 minutes and 40
seconds to travel from an epicenter
to a seismic station. How far is the
seismic station from the epicenter?

35. TAKE THE TIME TO BE CAREFUL AND ACCURATE!
We know the P wave travel time:
5 minutes and 40 seconds.
We are trying to find the distance between the epicenter and the seismic station.
Using a ruler, draw a line from the time (5:40) to the P wave line.
Now draw a line straight down to the bottom axis and read the
distance
3000 kilometers!
All of these problems are the same.
Given the time, find the distance.
Given the distance, find the time.
And it doesn’t matter whether you
are given P or S wave travel time
as long as you are careful to use
the correct line and, most important:
TAKE THE TIME TO BE CAREFUL AND ACCURATE!

36. Let’s take this one step further
Let’s take this one step further. A seismic station is 3000 km from the epicenter of an earthquake. If P waves from that quake arrive at the station at 4:25:40 PM (4 hours, 25 minutes and 40 seconds), at what time did the earthquake occur?
We do exactly the same thing we
did before, we find the travel time which is 5:40 (5 minutes, 40 sec.)
Now some math. If the waves arrived at 4:25:40 and they’ve been traveling for 5:40, when did they start out?
Subtract: 4:25:40
5:40
4:20:00
The quake occurred at 4:20:00 PM

37. OK, let’s try another type of problem involving both P and S waves
OK, let’s try another type of problem involving both P and S waves. Here’s an example
It takes P waves 7:20 (7 minutes and 20 seconds) to travel from an earthquake epicenter to a seismic station. How long will it take S waves from the same earthquake to reach the seismic station?
What do we know?
We know P wave travel time is 7:20
What are we trying to find?
We want to find S wave travel time.
Do we have enough information to do the problem?
NO!
We have to divide the problem into 2 parts. First, we do just what we did in the previous problem. We use the P wave travel time to find the distance to the seismic station and then
We use the distance to the seismic station to find how long it took S waves to travel that same distance.
Let’s see how it’s one

38. And now for something completely different.......................
We know P wave travel time is 7:20
so, using a ruler, draw a line from
7:20 over to the P wave line.
Now draw a line straight down to find the distance from the epicenter
The distance is 4200 km. Notice that each small box on the bottom axis is 200 km.
Now we can get on with the second
half of the problem. If the seismic
station is 4200 km from the quake
epicenter, how long (time) did it take the S waves to travel that same distance?
Draw a line from 4200 km straight up to the S wave line.
Now draw a line over to the vertical
axis and read the time
13 minutes exactly (13:00)
And now for something completely different

39. P & S waves:
Arrive at a seismic station 4 minutes and 30 seconds (4:30) apart. How far is the distance from the epicenter?
1) Take a sheet of paper and line up the left edge with the vertical axis (time). Be sure that most of the paper is hanging down below the graph. This is important.
2) Make a small, thin, and accurate mark on the paper at 0 time. Make another small, thin, and accurate, mark at 4:30 (4 minutes, 30 seconds).

40. Now slide your paper to the right
until one of your marks is exactly
on the S wave line and the other
is exactly on the P wave line. It is very important to be sure your
paper is straight (vertical).
Now look to see where the bottom of your paper crosses the lower (epicenter distance) axis. In this case it crosses at exactly 3000 km which is the answer.
When P & S waves arrive 4 minutes and 30 seconds apart it means that the seismic station is exactly 3000 km from the epicenter of the quake.
Of course we can do the same problem in reverse!

41. Earthquake Practice (5 min. each then check with popsicle sticks)
#1-6
#1-2
#1-4
Interpreting Seismograms Worksheet #7-9

42. Waves refract (bend) when they enter a new medium.
Even though P waves travel through the liquid outer core. They bend.

43. S waves cannot travel through liquid so there is a shadow zone with NO WAVES and an area with only P waves.

44. S-Wave Shadow and P-Waves
This is how scientists know the outer core is liquid!!!

45. Practice!! 1. Suppose you were 1000km away from an earthquake.
How many minutes would the P waves need to arrive at your seismograph?
How many minutes would the S waves need to arrive?
How many minutes apart are the P waves and S waves from each other on your seismogram?
2. If the S wave arrives 4 min, 30 sec after the P wave, how far is the earthquake’s epicenter?

46. Take one of the highlighted sheets at your table.
Due today: None /9/14
Take one of the highlighted sheets at your table.
Take a copy of the P-S wave graph as well.
Use the information given AND the graph to complete the blank squares in your highlighted sections.
(10 minutes)
Important Dates
4/10
Reading Guide Due
Earthquake Quiz
4/11
Library Day
Study Guide given out in class
4/15
Test Unit 5: Volcanoes and Earthquakes
ACT
4/16
Unit 6 Vocabulary Due
Honors Unit 6 Current Event Due

47. Magnitude Reading and Questions VOLCANOES! Introduction/ 2.1 10 pts.
What two factors are used to determine magnitude?
What scale is used to measure magnitude?
True / False: You probably would not notice or feel the effects of an Earthquake rated 2.
Calculations
VOLCANOES! Introduction/ 2.1
10 pts.
Write 5 facts about Volcanoes on your paper.
Write a list of 5 vocabulary terms (not defined)

48. Tsunami
Long shallow
waves that develop from earthquake activity and become
giants upon
reaching shore.

56. Bibliography
Thompson and Turk, 2005.

57. 3. The P-wave arrives at the seismogram station at 3 min
3. The P-wave arrives at the seismogram station at 3 min. 40 sec and the S-wave arrives at 6 min. 50 sec. What is the time interval between the waves?
How far away is the earthquake from this station?
Practice drawing the circle.