Wednesday, 2 July 2008

CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKES

This map shows the location of faults in California, you can see it is very complicated! If you feel you can get roughly the pattern copy it onto your map:
http://quake.usgs.gov/info/faultmaps/
You need to know the location of San Andreas, a conservative plate boundary, so use this map to label it http://quake.usgs.gov/info/faultmaps/fault207.html
Click on this link for a map showing old earthquakes in California:
http://www.ncedc.org/oldeqs/hist.html
This one is for recent earthquakes, in the last week:
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

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