1. Earthquake Data
By:Olivier Martin

2. Q:What do you notice about the distribution of these
earthquakes?
A: They are all in groups around the boundary lines.

3. Q: How does the distribution of these
earthquakes compare to others?
A: They are more by the oceans and are all on the
convergent boundaries.

4. Q: What type of plate boundary is associated with earthquakes that have a
magnitude of 7.0 or greater?
A: The occur by Convergent boundaries (the red lines).

5. Q: What Percentage of big earthquakes occur within 100 miles of a
convergent plate boundary?
A: 613 out 1286 of 48% of big earthquakes occur within 100 miles of
convergent plate boundaries.

6. Q:What Percentage of big earthquakes occur within 200 miles of a
convergent plate boundary?
A: 977 out of 1286 so that is 76% of big earthquakes occur within 200 miles
of a convergent plate boundary.

7. Saudi Arabia - Because there have been many large earthquakes in the past.
Idaho - Because I think that they are overdue for one.
Chile - Because It has many earthquakes all the time.
Washington - Because a convergent line goes straight through it, it has a strong possibility
to be hit.
India - Because they haven’t had very many.
China - Because China is one really big place it has a bigger possibility to be hit.
Taiwan - Because they have a really big amount of earthquakes all the time.
Brazil - Because they have had very few in the past year and I think that they are
overdue for one.
Australia - Because they have had very few in the past year but I think that they will
have more.
California - Because they got a lot of earthquakes and sometimes they are big.

8. New Technology:
Scientists now use a program called InSAR and it
predicts earthquakes and they are developing a
satellite that can predict and warn us days and
even weeks before they occur.

10. I have learned a lot about earthquakes. I have learned that earthquakes
are caused by tectonic plates moving/shifting and creating earthquakes.
It helps when scientists can tell through satellites when an earthquake is
going to hit, by doing that they can give out a warning to the people.
Some factors that influence earthquake prediction is the weather,
satellites, the pressure underneath the rocks, InSAR which is a program,
and many small things that are like in the system.
Earthquakes usually occur along the plate boundary lines because the
tectonic plates are always moving and that is why earthquakes
particularly occur along the place boundary line.