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DIRECTIONS

Click on the individual colored circles to learn more about earthquakes that have occurred in Southern California. Choose the button "Clickable Map of Historic Earthquakes" to return to ClickMap.

A. Identify the Elsinore, San Jacinto, and San Andreas fault systems.

B. Click on several of the individual earthquakes and answer the following questions:

Earthquake #1

1. Name assigned to Earthquake?

2. When did this earthquake occur?

3. Type of fault?

4. Did the earthquake cause a great deal of damage?

5. Do you think this earthquake would cause a great deal of damage if it were to occur today, at the same location, with the same magnitude?

Earthquake #2

1. Name assigned to Earthquake?

2. When did this earthquake occur?

3. Type of fault?

4. Did the earthquake cause a great deal of damage?

5. Do you think this earthquake would cause a great deal of damage if it were to occur today, at the same location, with the same magnitude?

Earthquake #3

1. Name assigned to Earthquake?

2. When did this earthquake occur?

3. Type of fault?

4. Did the earthquake cause a great deal of damage?

5. Do you think this earthquake would cause a great deal of damage if it were to occur today, at the same location, with the same magnitude?