Gujarat,+India,+2001

=Gujurat, India, 2001=

Team Members: Allie Almony, Emma Rinkers, and Sara Connolly
Directions: Answer the following questions using complete sentences.

1. Which areas of the world are more vulnerable to earthquakes and why? Subduction and fault zones are most vulnerable because they have the most stress.

2. What are the major problems dealing with earthquakes in the different areas? The major problems of a earthquake is a fault line.

3. Is there a successful way to predict earthquakes? Explain. While people notice that animals are acting differently before an earthquake arrives, there is not a successful way to predict earthquakes.

4. What causes earthquakes to occur? Earthquakes occur by shock waves and tectonic plates.

5. What is your earthquake? Where is it found (Ex: northern China)? Gujarat is our earthquake and it is located in Western India.

6. How long did the earthquake last? The earthquake lasted 58 min.

7. What was the earthquake’s magnitude on the Richter scale? The earthquake's magnitude is 7.9

8. What was the area like? (city, farmland, industrial, . . ) There are a few rivers, the mountains are in the Western part of the flats, in the Northern part which adjoins Thar desert.

9. How large was the population of people living in the area at the time of the earthquake? At the time of the earthquake there were 30,000 people living there.

10. What tectonic plate(s) were involved in this earthquake? (Use p664) The earthquake was a intraplate earthquake.

11. How many people were killed? Injured? Missing? Approximately 20,000 died and 167,000 people were injured

12. What is the estimated cost in damage? Total property damage was estimated at 5.5 billion and rising.

13. What were the effects on the nearby community? Property damage? The earthquake destroyed 75% of Qutch and over 80% of useable food and water supplies.

14. Have other earthquakes occurred at this location? No other earthquakes have occurred at this location.



15. Other interesting information I found: The earthquake occurred on the 51st celebration of Republic Day.

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? Have a safe house, like underground. The basement or under the steps is the best place to be during an earthquake. A shed would be the safest place to in the middle of an earthquake.

Websites:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Gujarat_earthquake