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=Great Kanto Earthquake: 1923=

Directions: Answer the following questions using complete sentences.

1. Which areas of the world are more vulnerable to earthquakes and why? -The areas that are most vulnerable to earthquakes are, small and large cities in Asia and the Americas because there is too much weight on the ground which causes it to break.

2. What are the major problems dealing with earthquakes in the different areas? -The major problems dealing with earthquakes is peoples houses are not strong enough. Their houses do not match up to the appropriate standards to handle a earthquakes. Japan has too many people living in it and not all people know what to do.

3. Is there a successful way to predict earthquakes? Explain. -Yes, there is a way to predict earthquakes. One way you can do this is to use a seismograph. What this does is it measures ground shaking and puts it on a graph then scicentists analyze the data. They can predict when the earthquake will occur and how big it will be.

4. What causes earthquakes to occur? -Earthquakes is the shaking of the ground caused by a shift of rock along a fracture in the Earth which is called a fault.

5. What is your earthquake? Where is it found (Ex: northern China)? -Kanto plain on the Japanese main island of Honshu. It happened at 11:58 on the morning of September 1,1923

6. How long did the earthquake last? - the earthquake lasted about about 4 to 10 minutes long and did tons of damage.

7. What was the earthquake’s magnitude on the Richter scale? -The earthquakes magnitude was between 7.9 and 8.4 on the Richter scale.

8. What was the area like? (city, farmland, industrial, . . ) - the area has industrial plants, restaurants, gas ranges, buildings, and traditional wood and paper Japanese houses.

9. How large was the population of people living in the area at the time of the earthquake? -The population of people living in the area at the time of the earthquake was, 3.4 million people.

10. What tectonic plate(s) were involved in this earthquake? (Use p664) -The constant sifting and resting on 3 tectonic plates created the Great Kanto erthquake in 1923 resting on four onstitly sitfing tectonic plates. The 3 plates were convergent, transform, and divergent.

11. How many people were killed? Injured? Missing? -About 105,000 people died and 37,000 went missing.

12. What is the estimated cost in damage? -The estimated damage due to this earthquake was one billion American dollars.

13. What were the effects on the nearby community? Property damage? -The great Kanto earthquake affected many other communities because of the earthquake spreading around homes got burned and more than 570,000 people homeless.

14. Have other earthquakes occurred at this location? -Many other earthquakes were located in this area. When the great kanto earthquake happened it spread out to other places.

15. Other interesting information I found: - Some other interesting information I found was, Though not the largest earthquake to ever hit Japan, Japan and Yokohama with combined populations about 2 million people, made it one of the most devastating earthquakes ever to hit Japan. Tokyo's business and industrial districts were ruined.

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? -The most effective way to prepare for is a earthquake is to hide inside your house under sturdy furniture, against inside walls, and away from glass. Safest places outside would be away from buildings, trees, electrical lines, and bridges.

Websites: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22115224/ http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00433/predicting.htm http://tremor.nmt.edu/faq/prepare.html