Article 2

1. Who is the author of your article?

Vince Stricherz

2. Who is the publisher? (CNN, geology.com, USA Today, etc.)

University of Washington News

3. What are three things that you learned?

Plates can be locked together for hundreds of years, there could be major complicatons for megathrust earthquakes and the plate could slip 50 feet or more during a megathrust earthquake.

4. What are two things that you found interesting?

A fault is called megathrust, and one earthquake was estimated to have a magnitude of 9.2.

5. What is one question that you still have?

What will happen to these plates one day?

Article 1

1. Who is the author of your article?

Unknown

2. Who is the publisher? (CNN, geology.com, USA Today, etc.)

geology.com

3. What are three things that you learned?

Cracks in floors and basement walls are typical types of damage done by swelling soils, expansive soils contain minerals such as smectite clays and expansive soils will also shrink when they dry out.

4. What are two things that you found interesting?

That this could actually put buildings at risk and all the damage it does.

5. What is one question that you still have?

Is it some sort of chemical reaction?

What do I deserve?

What grade do you deserve for you 1st Quarter Blogs?

Why?

Give specific examples of things that you have done to merit that grade.

I think I deserve a low A (at the most) or a low B(at the least)

I think I deserve on of those grades because I really do work hard in and out of this class, but I do think I've forgotten about two assignments.

:)

Mass Movement

1. Define mass movement.
2. What are the different types of mass movements?
3. Which mass movement has the greatest potential to cause the most damage? Why?
4. Include at least one picture of damage caused by your mass movement.

1. The transfer of rock and soil donslope due to gravity.

2. Rockfalls, slides, slumps, flows and creep.

3. Rockfalls because what falls is fragments of rock which can be very dangerous.