Northern+Sakhalin,+May+27,+1995

=Northern Sakhalin, May 27, 1995=

Team Members: P.J. McGinn


Directions: Answer the following questions using complete sentences.

1. Which areas of the world are more vulnerable to earthquakes and why? Areas tha are nere the fault line because thats where the plates move.

2. What are the major problems dealing with earthquakes in the different areas? They are all in defferent spots with different climit.

3. Is there a successful way to predict earthquakes? Explain. No There is programs that help predict when a earthquake will happen and a time window but no real way of Knowing.

4. What causes earthquakes to occur? Two Plates rubing up against each other and sliping down makes the ground shake.

5. What is your earthquake? Where is it found (Ex: northern China)? My EarthQuake is in Northern Sakhalin. It Is a Island off the cost of Asian Russia between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan 6. How long did the earthquake last? The Earth Quake Lasted 7 mins. 7. What was the earthquake’s magnitude the Richter scale? The Earth Quake was a 7.6 on the Richter scale.

8. What was the area like? (city, farmland, industrial, . . ) The Area has 2 mountens that ran throw it and made a Vally with Many Trees on the Island And it was a BIg place for Oil Pipe Lines.

9. How large was the population of people living in the area at the time of the earthquake? 500,000 Is the population on Sakhalin

10. What tectonic plate(s) were involved in this earthquake? (Use p664) The Tectonic Plates that Were Involved Were the North American plate and the the Eurasian plate. 11. How many people were killed? Injured? Missing?

12. What is the estimated cost in damage?

13. What were the effects on the nearby community? Property damage?

14. Have other earthquakes occurred at this location?

15. Other interesting information I found:

16. What is the most effective way to prepare for an earthquake? Where is the safest place to be inside your house? Where is the safest place to be outside?

Websites: http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/1/117 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0843174.html