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You will need to create an individual 3 - 4 minute presentation about a single specific earthquake. Your presentation should be clear, interesting and as informative as possible. If you choose to use a powerpoint or pictures, you are limited to a maximum of four slides or pictures. A simple presentation will include facts and information. A more developed presentation will contain facts, information and explain the basics of how an earthquake occurs. An advanced presentation will contain facts, information and be able to specifically explain details about the process of earthquakes related to this quake eg identifying plates, their movement and why they moved.

Historical Earthquakes, are listed with limited information on wikipedia, the links are below.

[|Pre 1900] [|1901- 2000] [|2001 - Present]

Key earthquakes of interest may be:

San Francisco, USA, 1906, Newcastle, Australia, 1989, Sumatra, Indonesia, 2004 (Boxing day earthquake and Tsunami) Northridge, Los Angeles, USA 1994 Haiti, Carribean, 2010 Japan, 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand 2011