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1 Lesson six: Earthquakes

2 Folkestone 28 th April 2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1550050/Earthquake-shakes- Kent.html

3 Transform plate boundary

4 The structure of an earthquake

5 The location of the San Andreas Fault

6 The San Andreas Fault More pictures are available from: http://www.sanandreasfault.org/Pictures.html http://www.sanandreasfault.org/Pictures.html © Flickr Doc Searls

7 Evidence of movement along the San Andreas Fault Can you spot it? Point Reyes, north of San Francisco 2010 © Tim Locke

8 The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 © Flickr, Thiophene_Guy © Chadwick, H. D. (US Gov War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.), Wikicommons

9 The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake Loma Prieta earthquake damage in Oakland 1989 © CIR Online, Flickr Loma Prieta earthquake damage 1989 © CIR Online, Flickr

10 The epicentre of the 2011 Japanese earthquake

11 The effects © Flickr; US Pacific Fleet (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1 st Class Matthew M. Bradley/Released) © Flickr; Official US Navy Page Debris in Ofunato, Japan Ten Days Later in Oshima-Mura, Japan


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