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Class Goals - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- Make you more aware of
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earthquakes
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- Make you more knowledgable about earthquakes
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- Make you prepared about the next big earthquake
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Puerto Rico is near the _____ plate. - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Caribbean Plate
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Earthquakes are ___. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Unpredictable
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What does building earthquake resilience require? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔- Time
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- Money
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What bridge collapsed during the Loma Prieta Earthquake
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(1989)? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔SF-Oakland Bay Bridge
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How long did it take to fix the SF-Oakland Bay bridge after Loma
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Prieta Earthquake? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔24 years
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Ridgecrest Sequence - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- July 4: 6.4
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Magnitude
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,- July 5: 7.1 Magnitude
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- Around 1000 aftershocks
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Earthquake Drill - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Drop, cover, hold
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Foreshock - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A small earthquake that often
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precedes a major earthquake
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What is 1 degree equivalent to (latitude and longitude)? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔100 km
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How many decimal places are needed for accuracy (latitude and
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longitude)? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔5
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MyShake and MyQuake - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Earthquake
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tracker apps developed by UC Berkeley Seismology Lab
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Early Origins of Earthquakes: PNW - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Oral
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traditions (1700)
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Early Origins of Earthquakes: California - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Records from mid 1800s
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Early Origins of Earthquakes: Greece to Afghanistan - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔- Records from 300 AD
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- Some from early writing of the bible
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,Early Origins of Earthquakes: Japan - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-
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Records from 1600 AD
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- Some from 416 AD
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Early Origins of Earthquakes: China - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Records from 780 BC
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What is the relationship between early origins of earthquakes and
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animals? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Earthquakes were associated
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with giant creatures that supported the earth.
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What is the early origin of earthquakes for Japan? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Catfish waking up
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What is the early origin of earthquakes for China? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Frogs
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What is the early origin of earthquakes for Philippines? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Snake
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What is the early origin of earthquakes for Native Americans? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Turtles waking up
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What is the early origin of earthquakes for Cascadia? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Thunderbird and whale talking to each other
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, What is the early origin of earthquakes for Siberia? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Sled dogs scratching themselves
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Aristotle (384-322 BCE) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Said
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earthquakes were caused by strong winds that blew through
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caves inside earth (similar to winds in our bodies that cause
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throbbing)
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Lucretius (99-55 BC) and Seneca (4 BC- 65 AD) - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Said earthquakes were caused by underground
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rock falls
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Early Origin of Earthquakes: Christian Europe - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔- Earthquakes meant god's angry response to
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human sins
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- Earthquakes seen as "kismet" or "acts of god"
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All Saint's Day (1755) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- Earthquake near
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offshore Portugal
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- One of the biggest earthquakes that struck the Earth
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- M > 8; 60k causalities
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- Happened during period of Enlightenment
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What did Voltaire argue about regarding All Saint's Day -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Natural causes, not god's doing.
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