Virtual Earthquake

Did you ever want to know how the epicenter of an earthquake is calculated? Or what the Richter Scale means and how it is calculated? This site will answer such questions. In this interactive lesson, you choose the locality of the earthquake, receive the seismograms, and interpret them. Feedback is provided as you progress through the steps. If you want to know more about earthquakes click on the links to other Web sites.

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Gary Novak, Department of Geological Sciences, and Bob Desharnais, Department of Biology, California State University at Los Angeles

Earth Sciences and Geology

Science and Math

9, 10