Purpose: Focus on facts and statistics on earthquake
Students are required to do the research on facts and statistics on earthquake.
Here are the steps that students can do:
1. Use various searching engines like google, yahoo, AOL, etc to search for the related resources.
2. Students can use key words like frequency of occurrence, magnitude charge, earthquake data, etc. (Use Boolean search)
3. Once students find suitable data, they have to understand and analyze the facts and statistics for case study project and final presentation.
Recommend following resources:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/
This is a link with real-time feeds & notifications that suggested web tools on providing the most latest news on earthquake datas through email, Atom Syndication and Tweet Earthquake Dispatch. Spreadsheet Applications, Programmatic Access and Google Earth KML are useful tools for reorganizing datas and information.
Other: Exercise
Tweet Earthquake Dispatch
Tweet Earthquake Dispatch (TED) offers two Twitter accounts. On average, each account will produce about one tweet per day.
Atom Syndication
A basic syndication format supported by a variety of feed readers. This is a good option for casually subscribing to earthquake information.
Spreadsheet Applications
A simple text format suitable for loading data into spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel™. This is a good option for manual scientific analysis.
QuakeML
A flexible, extensible and modular XML representation of seismological data which is intended to cover a broad range of fields of application in modern seismology.
Earthquake Notification Service
The Earthquake Notification Service (ENS) is a free service that sends you automated notifications to your email or cell phone when earthquakes happen.
Google Earth KML
This feed format is suitable for loading into applications that understand Keyhole Markup Language (KML) such as Google Earth™.
Programmatic Access
A well-structured format readily parsed by most programming languages. This is a good option for software developers wishing to use earthquake data.
Source of information
Other: Exercise
Students can fill in the following exercise to test their concept on earthquake statistics according to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/world_deaths.php
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