Sumatra,+Indonesia,+2007

=Sumatra, Indonesia, 2007=

Team Members:
Directions: Answer the following questions using complete sentences.

1. Which areas of the world are more vulnerable to earthquakes and why?

Cities in Asia and America are the most risked.



2. What are the major problems dealing with earthquakes in the different areas?

3. Is there a successful way to predict earthquakes? Explain.

4. What causes earthquakes to occur? What causes an earthquake to occur is the shaking of the ground caused by an abrupt shift of rock along a fracture of the earth.

5. What is your earthquake? Where is it found (Ex: northern China)? This is the earthquake off the coast of Southern Sumatra in Indonesia.

6. How long did the earthquake last?

7. What was the earthquake’s magnitude on the Richter scale? The earthquake's magnitude on the Ricther scale was 8.5.

8. What was the area like? (city, farmland, industrial, . . )

9. How large was the population of people living in the area at the time of the earthquake?

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

11. How many people were killed? Injured? Missing? The number of people killed were 25 and the number injured was 161.

12. What is the estimated cost in damage?

13. What were the effects on the nearby community? Property damage? The affects on the nearby community were shocking. 52,522 buildings damaged or destroyed and roads.

14. Have other earthquakes occurred at this location?

15. Other interesting information I found: Other interesting facts were the size of the Tsunami which towered 90cm high!

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?

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