Part Three of Earthquake Project for course i
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PART 3
: ANALYSIS (20 pts)
You are now ready to analyze your data. Your objective is to determine what type of pattern
(if any)
exists in the region. If a pattern is not emerging for you or you notice gaps in your data collection,
considering collecting additional earthquake data. Add those additional earthquakes below.
Mark
them on your map (Part 2) with a different symbol
,
but the same color-scheme
.
Additional Data:
Event #
Date
Latitude (
S)
Longitude
(
W)
Depth
(km)
Magnitude
(M)
1
01/20/202
3
26.721
63.039
610.7
6.8
2
01/24/202
3
26.735
63.118
596.1
6.4
3
01/16/202
3
21.806
68.556
80.8
5.0
4
01/12/202
3
30.636
71.229
56.7
5.5
5
01/10/202
3
27.713
63.242
582.5
5.1
6
01/04/202
3
19.164
68.966
126.3
5.1
7
01/30/202
3
21.705
68.703
127.8
4.2
8
01/30/202
3
21.215
68.850
116.0
4.3
9
01/29/202
3
22.062
67.271
184.7
4.4
10
01/28/202
3
3.795
80.500
59.3
4.5
Look at your collected data. Sometimes, when doing science, you collect more data than is actually
useful.
1)
What data did you collect that ended up being not that helpful for your hypothesis?
Example, if
you decided to use earthquake depth data why do you feel that magnitude was less useful (
4 pts
)
2) You have already analyzed your data in Part 2 of this project, but you will now graph your
data to see if any trends become visible. NOTE: You will be graphing your data from Part 2 and any
additional data that you have collected in the table above.
Using the piece of graph paper on the next page please complete the following:
For the X-axis (horizontal): Choose between latitude or longitude. Think about whether it
will be more useful to plot your data parallel to (longitude), or perpendicular (latitude) to
the plate boundary. You may find sections 3.4 and 12.3 of your textbook helpful.
For the Y-axis (vertical): Choose magnitude or depth. You will likely use whatever variable
you plotted on the map for Part 2, however, if your map for Part 2 didn’t show any pattern it
may be worth plotting the other variable on the graph paper.
Be sure to label your axes, giving any units e.g. km, and include a title on your graph. (
12 pts
)
I think earthquake depth was not useful to my hypothesis considering that magnitude
provides more information about an earthquake and its strength. Using earthquake depth
cant help predict earthquakes as much and isn’t readily available as magnitude.
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