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Friday evening, September 8th, a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Morocco southwest of Marrakech.
What does a 6.8 magnitude earthquake mean? How powerful was that? What is a seismometer and a seismograph? What is the amplitude of a seismograph reading? Why did the quake happen in Morocco?
Use our Richter scale activity to introduce your students to logarithmic Richter magnitudes.
The activity: MoroccoEarthquake.pdf
CCSS: 8.F.4, 8.F.5, HSF.LE.A.1, HSF.LE.A.2, HSF.LE.A.4, HSF.LE.B.5
For members we have an editable Word docx, an Excel sheet comparing magnitude to energy, and our solutions.
MoroccoEarthquake.docx Richter-scale-vs-energy-yield.xlsx MoroccoEarthquake-solution.pdf