Volcano/Earthquake Presentation Assignment



Volcano/Earthquake Presentation Assignment

Due April 5

You will research and report about one historic earthquake and one historic volcanic eruption. You need to provide the class with background and interesting facts as well as a visual aid.

Volcanic Eruption:

My volcano:____________________________________

Where is it?

When were there historically significant eruptions?

How active was the volcano before and after historic eruptions?

Were there casualties?

What type of volcano is it?

How was the eruption handled by the people or government?

Is the volcano currently a threat?

Please include a map and a picture.

Earthquake:

My Earthquake ______________________________

Where?

When?

Magnitude?

Casualties?

What type of fault?

What is the activity level of the fault line of the earthquake?

Tsunami?

What was the preparedness of the people/gov’t?

Please include a map.

|Volcano[pic] |

|Laki (Grimsvotn) |

|Lake Toba (see also Toba catastrophe theory) |

|Santorini (see Minoan eruption) (aka Thera) |

|Mount Tambora (see also Year Without a |

|Summer) |

|Krakatoa |

|Mount Pelée |

|Nevado del Ruiz |

|Mount Vesuvius |

|Mount Unzen |

|Mount Kelut |

|Santa Maria |

|Mount Kelut |

|Mount Galunggung |

|El Chichón |

|Mount Vesuvius |

|Mount Lamington |

|Tseax Cone |

|Soufrière |

|Mount Agung |

|Mount Merapi |

|Mount Mayon |

|Mount Taal |

|Mount Asama |

|Cotopaxi |

|Mount Pinatubo |

|Mount Merapi |

|Nyiragongo |

|Mt Ruapehu, Tangiwai |

|Mount Tarawera |

|Mount St. Helens |

|Date UTC |Location |

|1902 04 19 |Quezaltenango and San Marcos, |

| |Guatemala |

| |14N 91W |

|1902 12 16 |Andijon (Andizhan), Uzbekistan |

| |(Turkestan, Russia) |

| |40.8N 72.3E |

|1903 04 28 |Malazgirt, Turkey (Ottoman |

| |Empire) |

| |39.1N 42.6E |

|1903 05 28 |Gole, Turkey (Ottoman Empire) |

| |40.9N 42.7E |

|1905 04 04 |Kangra, India |

| |33.0N 76.0E |

|1905 09 08 |Calabria, Italy |

| |39.4N 16.4E |

|1906 01 31 |Off coast of Esmeraldas, |

| |Ecuador |

| |1N 81.5W |

|1906 03 16 |Chia-i, Taiwan |

| |23.6N 120.5E |

|1906 04 18 |San Francisco, California |

| |37.75N 122.55W |

|1906 08 17 |Valparaiso, Chile |

| |33S 72W |

|1907 01 14 |Kingston, Jamaica |

| |18.2N 76.7W |

|1907 10 21 |Qaratog (Karatag), Tajikistan |

| |(Turkestan, Russia) |

| |38.5N 67.9E |

|1908 12 28 |Messina, Italy |

| |38.15N 15.68E |

|1909 01 23 |Silakhor, Iran (Persia) |

| |33.4N 49.1E |

| |Murefte, Turkey (Ottoman |

| |Empire) |

| |40.75N 27.20E |

|1914 10 03 |Burdur, Turkey (Ottoman Empire)|

| |37.82N 30.27E |

|1915 01 13 |Avezzano, Italy |

| |41.98N 13.65E |

|1917 01 20 |Bali, Indonesia |

| |9.0S 115.8E |

|1917 07 30 |North of Daguan, Yunnan, China |

| |28.0N 104.0E |

|1918 02 13 |Nan'ao, Guangdong (Kwangtung), |

| |China |

| |23.5N 117.2E |

|1920 12 16 |Haiyuan, Ningxia (Ning-hsia), |

| |China |

| |36.5N 105.7E |

|1923 03 24 |Near Luhuo, Sichuan (Szechwan),|

| |China |

| |31.3N 100.8E |

|1923 05 25 |Torbat-e Heydariyeh, Iran |

| |(Persia) |

| |35.2N 59.2E |

|1923 09 01 |Kanto (Kwanto), Japan |

| |35.3N 139.5E |

|1925 03 16 |Near Dali (Talifu, Ta-li), |

| |Yunnan, China |

| |25.7N 100.2E |

|1927 03 07 |Tango, Japan |

| |35.8N 134.8E |

|1927 05 22 |Gulang, Gansu (Kansu), China |

| |37.5N 102.7E |

|1929 05 01 |Koppeh Dagh, Iran (Persia) |

| |37.85N 57.75E |

|1930 05 06 |Salmas, Iran (Persia) |

| |38.15N 44.70E |

|1930 07 23 |Irpinia, Italy |

| |41.05N 15.37E |

|1931 03 31 |Managua, Nicaragua |

| |12.15N 86.28W |

|1931 04 27 |Zangezur Mountains, |

| |Armenia-Azerbaijan border |

| |(Armeniya-Azerbaydzhan, USSR) |

| |39.2N 46.0E |

|1931 08 10 |Near Fuyun (Koktokay), Xinjiang|

| |(Sinkiang), China |

| |46.8N 89.9E |

|1932 12 25 |Changma, Gansu (Kansu), China |

| |39.7N 97.0E |

|1933 03 02 |Sanriku, Japan |

| |39.25N 144.5E |

|1933 08 25 |North of Maowen, Sichuan |

| |(Szechwan), China |

| |32.0N 103.7E |

|1934 01 15 |Bihar, India-Nepal |

| |26.5N 86.5E |

|1935 04 20 |Miao-li, Taiwan (Formosa) |

| |24.3N 120.8E |

|1935 05 30 |Quetta, Pakistan (Baluchistan, |

| |India) |

| |29.6N 66.5E |

|1935 07 16 |Hsin-chu (Shinchiku), Taiwan |

| |(Formosa) |

| |24.6N 120.8E |

|1939 01 25 |Chillan, Chile |

| |36.25S 72.25W |

|1939 12 26 |Erzincan, Turkey |

| |39.8N 39.38E |

|1940 11 10 |Vrancea, Romania (Rumania) |

| |45.8N 26.7E |

|1942 12 20 |Erbaa, Turkey |

| |40.9N 36.5E |

|1943 09 10 |Tottori, Japan |

| |35.5N 134.2E |

|1943 11 26 |Ladik, Turkey |

| |40.97N 33.22E |

|1944 01 15 |San Juan, Argentina |

| |31.5S 68.6W |

|1944 02 01 |Gerede, Turkey |

| |41.11N 33.22E |

|1944 12 07 |Tonankai, Japan |

| |33.7N 136.2E |

|1945 01 12 |Mikawa, Japan |

| |34.7N 137.0E |

|1945 11 27 |Makran Coast, Pakistan |

| |(Baluchistan, India) |

| |24.9N 63.5E |

|1946 05 31 |Ustukran, Turkey |

| |39.33N 41.10E |

|1946 11 10 |Ancash, Peru |

| |8.5S 77.5W |

|1946 12 20 |Nankaido, Japan |

| |33.0N 135.6E |

|1948 06 28 |Fukui, Japan |

| |36.1N 136.2E |

|1948 10 05 |Ashgabat (Ashkhabad), |

| |Turkmenistan (Turkmeniya, USSR)|

| |37.95N 58.32E |

|1949 07 10 |Khait, Tajikistan |

| |(Tadzhikistan, USSR) |

| |39.2N 70.8E |

|1949 08 05 |Ambato, Ecuador |

| |1.5S 78.25W |

|1950 08 15 |Near Zhamo (Rima), Xizang |

| |(Tibet), China |

| |"Assam-Tibet" Earthquake |

| |28.7N 96.6E |

|1951 08 02 |Cosiguina, Nicaragua |

| |13.0N 87.5W |

|1953 03 18 |Yenice-Gonen, Turkey |

| |40.01N 27.49E |

|1954 09 09 |Chlef (Orleansville, El Asnam),|

| |Algeria |

| |36.28N 1.47E |

|1957 06 27 |Stanovoy Mountains, Russia |

| |(USSR) |

| |56.3N 116.5E |

|1957 07 02 |Near Sang Chai, Mazandaran, |

| |Iran |

| |36.14N 52.70E |

|1957 12 13 |Sahneh, Iran |

| |34.35N 47.67E |

|1960 02 29 |Agadir, Morocco |

| |30.45N 9.62W |

|1960 05 22 |Temuco-Valdivia, Chile |

| |38.29S 73.05W |

|1962 09 01 |Bu'in Zahra, Qazvin, Iran |

| |35.6N 49.9E |

|1963 07 26 |Skopje, Former Yugoslav Rep. of|

| |Macedonia |

| |(Makedonija, Yugoslavia) |

| |42.1N 21.4E |

|1966 03 07 |East of Longyao, Hebei (Hopeh),|

| |China |

| |37.35 114.92 |

|1966 03 22 |Southeast of Ningjin, Hebei |

| |(Hopeh), China |

| |37.5 115.1 |

|1966 08 19 |Varto, Turkey |

| |39.1N 41.48E |

|1968 08 31 |Dasht-e Bayaz, Iran |

| |33.9N 59.02E |

|1969 07 25 |Yangjiang, Guangdong, China |

| |21.61N 111.83E |

|1970 01 04 |Tonghai, Yunnan Province, China|

| |24.12N 102.49E |

|1970 03 28 |Gediz, Turkey |

| |39.06N 29.54E |

|1970 05 31 |Chimbote, Peru |

| |9.36S 78.87W |

|1971 05 22 |Turkey |

| |38.83N 40.52E |

|1972 04 10 |southern Iran |

| |28.4N 52.8E |

|1972 12 23 |Nicaragua, Managua |

| |12.4N 86.1W |

|1974 05 10 |China |

| |28.2N 104.0E |

|1974 12 28 |Pakistan |

| |35.0N 72.8E |

|1975 02 04 |Haicheng, China |

| |40.6N 122.5E |

|1975 09 06 |Turkey |

| |38.5N 40.7E |

|1976 02 04 |Guatemala |

| |15.3N 89.1W |

|1976 05 06 |northeastern Italy |

| |46.4N 13.3E |

|1976 06 25 |Papua, Indonesia |

| |4.6S 140.1E |

|1976 07 27 |Tangshan, China |

| |39.6N 118.0E |

|1976 08 16 |Mindanao, Philippines |

| |6.3N 124.0E |

|1976 11 24 |Turkey-Iran border region |

| |39.1N 44.0E |

|1977 03 04 |Romania |

| |45.8N 26.8E |

|1978 09 16 |Iran |

| |33.2N 57.4E |

|1980 10 10 |El Asnam, Algeria |

| |(formerly Orleansville) |

| |36.1N 1.4E |

|1980 11 23 |southern Italy |

| |40.9N 15.3E |

|1981 06 11 |southern Iran |

| |29.9N 57.7E |

|1981 07 28 |southern Iran |

| |30.0N 57.8E |

|1982 12 13 |Yemen |

| |14.7N 44.4E |

|1983 10 30 |Turkey |

| |40.3N 42.2E |

|1985 09 19 |Mexico, Michoacan |

| |18.2N 102.5W |

|1986 10 10 |El Salvador |

| |13.8N 89.2W |

|1987 03 06 |Colombia-Ecuador |

| |0.2N 77.8W |

|1988 08 20 |Nepal-India border region |

| |26.8N 86.6E |

|1988 12 07 |Spitak, Armenia |

| |41.0N 44.2E |

|1990 06 20 |Western Iran |

| |37.0N 49.4E |

|1990 07 16 |Luzon, Philippine Islands |

| |15.7N 121.2E |

|1991 10 19 |Northern India |

| |30.8N 78.8E |

|1992 12 12 |Flores Region, Indonesia |

| |8.5S 121.9E |

|1993 09 29 |Latur-Killari, India |

| |18.1N 76.5E |

|1995 01 16 |Kobe, Japan |

| |34.6N 135E |

|1995 05 27 |Sakhalin Island |

| |52.6N 142.8E |

|1997 05 10 |Northern Iran |

| |33.9N 59.7E |

|1998 02 04 |Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan |

| |37.1N 70.1E |

|1998 05 30 |Afghanistan-Tajikistan Border |

| |Region |

| |37.1N 70.1E |

|1998 07 17 |Papua New Guinea |

| |2.96S 141.9E |

|1999 01 25 |Colombia |

| |4.46N 75.82W |

|1999 08 17 |Turkey |

| |40.7N 30.0E |

|1999 09 20 |Taiwan |

| |23.7N 121.0E |

|2001 01 26 |Gujarat, India |

| |23.3N 70.3E |

|2002 03 25 |Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan |

| |35.9N 69.2E |

|2003 05 21 |Northern Algeria |

| |36.90N 3.71E |

|2003 12 26 |Southeastern Iran |

| |28.99N 58.31E |

|2004 12 26 |Sumatra |

| |3.30N 95.87E |

|2005 03 28 |Northern Sumatra, Indonesia |

| |2.07N 97.01E |

|2005 10 08 |Pakistan |

| |34.53N 73.58E |

|2006 05 26 |Indonesia |

| |-7.961 110.446 |

|2008 05 12 |Eastern Sichuan, China |

| |31.002 103.322 |

|2009 09 30 |Southern Sumatra, Indonesia |

| |-0.720 99.867 |

|2010 01 12 |Haiti region |

| |18.445 -72.571 |

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