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INTRODUCTION TO EARTH SCIENCE
ESCI 121
Fall 2010
Section 06
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Assignment #7 on Weather Tracking has been
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By the end of
today's class, you should be able to do the
following:
EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS
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Review:
Show how to locate the
epicenter of an earthquake using seismograms
from three different stations, and explain why
it is necessary to use data from at least three
stations.
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Continued: Use seismograms to find the
epicenter of an earthquake using the Indian
Ocean tsunami as an example. Extra copies
of the
map and seismograms, and the
graph appear here. This exercise is abridged from
an
exercise copyrighted in 2004 by Dave Robison and
Steve Kluge.
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