10.5 Earthquakes

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From: Rebecah Davis (rdavis@ebfas.org)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 13:12:40 PDT 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:12:40 -0700
Subject: 10.5 Earthquakes
From: Rebecah Davis <rdavis@ebfas.org>
Message-Id: <BB9A4B2C-9AE2-11D8-B80B-000A95904BB0@ebfas.org>

One of the parents at my school is a geologist who studies plate
tectonics and he forwarded me the following information about the
miniseries on NBC. Thought you guys might find it useful.

Questions about the "10.5" miniseries?   

Visit http://www.earthquakecountry.info/10.5

This Sunday and Monday nights, NBC will broadcast "10.5," a two-part
miniseries about a series of unrealistic earthquakes, culminating in an
earthquake that separates a portion of southern California from the
mainland.  

While the miniseries contains many of the myths that we have worked to
dispel, the attention creates an educational opportunity.  

After discussion at the last Earthquake Country Alliance meeting, the
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) and the United States
Geological Survey (USGS) have created a series of web pages addressing
the miniseries, to separate fact from movie fiction.  The pages are at
http://www.earthquakecountry.info

The web pages include:

• links to official comments from state and federal organizations
• a list of many of the errors in the miniseries and why they are wrong
• earthquake preparedness information
• lesson plans to help teachers respond to their students' concerns or
questions
• links to many other earthquake-related websites
• the online version of the updated "Putting Down Roots in Earthquake
Country."

The idea is that if you have questions, or if others ask you questions,
you can simply refer to these web pages at
http://www.earthquakecountry.info/10.5.

If you have questions about the website, think we omitted something
important, or want to make any other comments, please contact Ilene
Cooper at icooper@usc.edu or Wendy Shindle at wshindle@usgs.gov, who
have worked together to create this resource.

________________________________________________________
                                          
   Mark Benthien                          
   Director of Communication, Education and Outreach
   Southern California Earthquake Center  
       University of Southern California  
       3651 Trousdale Parkway, Ste. 169   
       Los Angeles, CA 90089-0742         
       web:    www.scec.org               
       e-mail: benthien@usc.edu           
       phone:  213-740-0323               
       fax:    213-740-0011              
___________

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot
[Four Quartets]

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