Building an Earthquake Web Project for Crises of the Earth

Dale "Shake em" Sawyer and Willy "Bake em" Leeman

Introduction

This is a sample webpage that students in Geol 108 "Crises of the Earth" can use as a template for their web based Earthquake projects. You may load this template into Claris Home Page and modify it for your project. You may also start from scratch and not use this template at all.

Earthquake Project Groups

Upload Instructions

List of Project Topics

1. North America/Pacific Plate boundary near San Francisco
2. North America/Pacific Plate boundary near Los Angeles
3. North America/Pacific (Juan de Fuca) Plate boundary near Seattle
4. Eurasia/Pacific Plate boundary near Japan
5. Earthquakes at the Eurasian/Philipines-Pacific Plate Boundary
6. Eurasia/Pacific Plate boundary near Phillipines
7. North America/Pacific Plate boundary near Aleutian Islands - submitted as paper document
8. Kobe Japan Earthquake in 1995
9. Nazca/South America Plate boundary near Chile
10. Nazca/South America Plate boundary near Columbia - submitted as paper document
11. Australia/Eurasia Plate boundary near Sumatra
12. African/Eurasian Plate boundary near Greece
13. African/Eurasian Plate boundary near Italy
14. African/Eurasian Plate boundary near Turkey
15. Indian Earthquake Jan 2001
16. El Salvador Earthquake Jan 2001
17. New Madrid Earthquakes
18. Construction in Earthquake Hazzard areas
19. 1964 Alaskan Earthquake
20. 1994 Northridge Earthquake

Web Page Contents

Each Web project should contain the following minimum information

• Title
• Authors
• Introduction - Explain in a paragraph what the page is about. The introduction should be clear to a reader who knows nothing of our class.
• A map or maps showing the regional and possibly detailed locations of earthquakes
• Summary of earthquake history of the region. This should include notable earthquakes as well as the normal background earthquake conditions.
• Impacts of Earthquakes on the local areas.
• Relate the earthquake activity to the Plate Tectonics of the region.Give a list of links to all the pages you used to research or build your project. This will serve as a kind of bibliography.

   

Using Graphics

You can display pictures on your web page. This image shows damage to railroad tracks during the 1964 Alaska Earthquake. I copied this image from a webpage containing earthquake damage pictures by John Martin.

Hot links in your text or in lists can be connected to pictures you obtain from the web.

• A picture of destroyed bridge in Kobe Japan after the 1995 earthquake. This example is an external link to a picture at the U Cal Berkeley Museum Informatics Project .
• A map of Kobe City shows the locations of various kinds of disasters there. In this case we copied the figure from someone else's web page into our directory. This means that even if they change or delete their web pages, (which they now have!) we still have a working figure for our page. We obtained this figure from Athena Earth Science Curriculum (which is now a dead link!).

Sources and Useful Links

This is a list of web pages I used in assembling this page.

1. Athena Earth Science Curriculum page on the Kobe Earthquake
2. Univ. of Cal. at Berkeley Museum Informatics Project
3. Web page by John Martin