Name: _________________________________ Class: ______________ Date: _____________
1. Visit the following site to visualize the damage caused by these waves.
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~rmellors/lab8/l8maineq.htm#rwave
a. Describe what you see.
b. How do these animations support your previous prediction?
c. Do you think that there would be any differences in the amount of destruction caused by each wave type if the difference to the epicenter differed? If so, what would those differences be?
2. Visit http://www.teachingboxes.org//earthquakes/resources/haywardFaultAnimations.jsp to observe how waves travel away from the epicenter of an earthquake.
a. Begin by clicking on the "South to North" MPEG movie. Watch this movie several times and describe what you see.
b. Following the class discussion, describe the effects of the earthquake in two different areas shown on the map: the South Bay and the North Bay.
3. Now view the North to South MPEG movie. How do the results differ?
4. Finally, view the Bilateral Rupture MPEG movie. How do the results differ from the previous earthquake simulations?
DLESE Teaching Boxes | October 2005