1. Review earthquake basics
What is an earthquake?
Why does it need to be “fast”? How are they modeled mathematically?
Why do earthquakes occur?
Where do earthquakes occur?
What is the seismogenic zone?
Interplate, Intraplate -- how deep?
Where do the biggest earthquakes occur and why?
What are aftershocks? What are Omori’s and Bth’s laws?
How frequently do earthquakes occur? What is the Gutenberg-Richter relation?
Why are there different magnitude scales?
How do earthquakes help us learn about the Earth?