Tectonic Time Bomb in Our Backyard: The Hayward Fault

California Science Education Conference Short Course

November 1, 2008

Presented by Peggy Hellweg ( Berkeley Seismological Laboratory), Mark Harms (SJSU), and Ellen Metzger (SJSU).

Related Resources

Activities presented and links to the resources below can be found on the Bay Area Earth Science Institute (BAESI) web site.  Go to www.baesi.org and click  on "CSTA Short Course"

 Peggy' presentation  and movies:

  ftp://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/outgoing/peggy/Teachers

   Mark's presentation on stick-slip

A.  Activities

            1.  The Bay Area Has Its Faults

            2.  The Mercalli Scale: Calling Station KWAT

                 This activity comes from Seismic Sleuths: Earthquakes – A Teacher's Package for Grades 7-12.  You can                     download the entire package from: http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=1522

            3.  Earthquake Slip

                        Lesson                         Student Sheet

B,    Hayward Fault

          Resources from the 1868 Earthquake Alliance: http://1868alliance.org/resources/

C .   Other Web Sites

Berkeley Seismological Lab.  http://seismo.berkeley.edu  (blog, information, links, …)

US Geological Survey

            http://quake.usgs.gov  (earthquake info, “did you feel it”, glossary, …)

California Geological Survey

             http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/information/Outreach (maps, California geology,…)

            Earthquake Preparedness

                        Red Cross: http://www.redcrossbayarea.org/pba/

                        Association of Bay Area Governments http://quake.abag.ca.gov/

          Earthquake Info (World)  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

Earthquake Info ( California ) http://quake.usgs.gov/recentearthquakes/latest.htm

Earthquake  Info (Email, Pager, Text Msg http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakecenter/ens/

“Did you feel it?” http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakecenter/dyfi.php  (Community intensity maps)