Science Close to Home!
The following appeared in the Los Angeles Times on June 3, 2018.
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| How Big IS "The Big One?" |
But what gets less attention is the wrenching aftermath of such a huge temblor, which could leave whole neighborhoods torched by fires uninhabitable and hundreds of thousands of people without a home.
Officials are grappling with where all these quake refugees would go.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, more than 400,000 could be displaced in a magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault, which directly runs underneath cities like Berkeley, Oakland, Hayward and Fremont, said Ken Hudnut, the U.S. Geological Survey’s science advisor for risk reduction. And it’s possible that more than 250,000 people in Southern California could be forced out of their homes after a major earthquake on the San Andreas fault, Hudnut said.
1. Watch the following videos with an open mind and a blank piece of paper. All of these videos address Earth Science concepts that have the potential to change our lifestyle radically here in southern California.
As you watch the videos, do so with an open and responsive mind. Let your rational mind and responsive emotions run freely while watching. Write a continuing response to the information you observe. Stop the video and write if you need time to complete each thought.
2. Do NOT DO any of the Guided Reading and Study Workbook questions for Chapter 8. Instead, you are to conduct interviews with at least two people who experienced the Northridge earthquake in 1994. You should conduct the interviews with the following topics being asked. Write the responses of those people you interview.
A. Where you when the earthquake first started?
B. What was your first thought?
C. What emotions were you feeling?
D. Did you feel or were you in physical danger?
E. What protective actions did you take?
F. Did you experience any aftershocks?
G. ...you can add any other questions you think interesting...
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