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Michigan Tech University: Where Do Earthquakes Happen?

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An informative site that explains how and where earthquakes occur and the different types of faults. Contains maps and charts of fault lines, plate edges, and the continental plates. There are other links within the site of related materials.

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Concepts
earthquakes, fault lines, faults, seismic waves, seismology
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body waves, cause, continental plates, focus, normal faults, oceanic plates, plates, reverse faults, strike-slip faults, surface waves, ms-ess2-2, michigan tech university: where do earthquakes happen?, epicenter, fault
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information
NGSS
MS-ESS2-2