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Week#3 - Earthquake! & Chuseok Reflections


Handouts




Videos
Plate Tectonics Explained
What is an Earthquake? Facts & Information   (tangent)

  1. What happened after you left BUFS last Monday?
  2. How much did you discuss it with family and friends afterward?
  3. Did you hear any interesting 'Quake Stories'?
  4. Did it affect your work at all?
  5. What other kinds of natural disasters have you experienced?
  6. What are your most memorable, scary, and/or funny disaster memories?
  7. Are there any places that you would not visit for fear of natural disasters?
  8. Are you prepared for any kind of disaster? How so? Do you have a Survival kit? Go bag?
Vocabulary
Fault: A crack in the earth's crust that is caused by sliding plates
Epicenter: Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus
Tremors: shaking of the ground that occurs during earthquakes
Aftershocks: smaller quakes produced after a major quake caused by rocks shifting to new positions
Magnitude: Greatness of size, strength, or importance
Converging: coming together
Diverging: tending to move apart in different directions
Seismograph: A device that measures the strength of an earthquake.
Landslide: a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
Fatality: a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
Casualty: someone injured or killed in an accident or disaster
Devastation: complete destruction
Drought: A long period of dry weather
Avalanche: great mass of falling snow and ice
Blizzard: A heavy snowstorm with strong winds
Evacuation: Organized, phased, and supervised withdrawal, dispersal, or removal of civilians from dangerous area
Eruption: a sudden outburst or explosion (from a volcano)
Rubble: waste or rough fragments of stone, brick, concrete, etc., especially as the debris from the demolition of buildings.
Debris: scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed.
Turbulence: commotion or wild disorder, on an airplane or in society