Earthquake

Welcome: Earthquake
Description: An earthquake is nature's single most destructive force. The tremendous amount of energy released in an earthquake can cost billions and trillions of dollars in damage to building structures and countless losses of human lives. The goal of this webquest is to teach the readers the following: 1. Probability and statistics of earthquakes 2. Physics of earthquakes 3. Reading the Richter scale and working with logarithms 4. What to do in the event of an earthquake
Grade Level: 9-12
Curriculum: Math
Keywords: earthquake, earthquakes
Author(s): Jason Brown, Adam Frys, Jaime Hurlbut, Nick Kim, Nathaniel Simson