Earthquake Simulation
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Student ActivityIn the first activity, students place five seismic stations on a map and let off an explosion to initiate an earthquake from a chosen location. They measure the distance from the explosion to the seismic stations, and measure the S-P lag time for each station. They then construct a travel time graph in order to understand the relationship between the distance seismic waves travel and the S-P lag time.
The second activity has students use seismic recording stations and S-P lag time measurements in order to triangulate and provide an estimation for latitude and longitude of the epicentre of an earthquake. |
The SyllabusSenior Science Stage 6 HSC course
9.8 Disasters OUTCOMES H2 analyses the ways in which models, theories and laws in Earth and Environmental Science have been tested and validated CONTENT Students: 9.8.3.2.3 explain how the difference in time of arrival of P and S waves can be used to locate an earthquake epicentre 9.8.3.3.1 gather and process information from secondary sources to determine the location of an earthquake’s epicentre 9.8.3.3.2 gather and process information from secondary sources on the use of:
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