http://www.scec.org/ Southern California Earthquake Center en marquis@usc.edu Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:12:37 PST Community Organized Resource Environment (CORE) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.scec.org/education/public/070926campesina.html <img src="http://www.scec.org/core/public/inline/13640sm.jpg" width='200' height='150' alt="Robert de Groot shares earthquake preparedness information" align="right" /><p> The Southern California Earthquake Center was informing the residents of Eastern Riverside County about earthquake safety at Fiesta Campesina, an annual health fair that happened on September 26. </p> <p> The area is in a very seismically active region, and it is where a big earthquake on the San Andreas fault that will shake all of Southern California is expected to begin, according to Robert de Groot, K-12 and Informal Education Programs Manager for SCEC. </p> <p> This is the second year that the fair has been held, and was organized by the Eastern Coachella Valley Social Change Collaborative and other partnering organizations. The event's primary goal is to provide health services for the often-impoverished families of farmers in the Eastern Coachella Valley. <a href="http://www.scec.org/education/public/070926campesina.html">More...</a> </p> home aboutscec research resources education Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 PST http://www.scec.org/education/k12/070929aeg.html <img src="http://www.scec.org/core/public/inline/13637sm.jpg" width='200' height='150' alt="" align="right" /><p> The Southern California Earthquake Center held an earthquake education workshop for local teachers at the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists annual meeting, on September 29. A total of 24 teachers from local middle and high schools attended the workshop that was held at the Sheraton Hotel at Universal City, Los Angeles. </p> <p> "We handed out lesson plans about earthquake safety to the teachers, and they also got to do activities, which they could do with their classes, that demonstrated the nature of earthquakes," said Gema Venegas, Education Program Assistant for SCEC. </p> <p> All topics taught in the workshop are aligned with the California K-12 Science Content Standards. Among the activities presented were plate puzzles (large maps cut apart that show how the planet's tectonic plates interact), and a demonstration from an "earthquake machine" (a device with a brick sliding on sandpaper that shows how hard it is to predict earthquakes). <a href="http://www.scec.org/education/k12/070929aeg.html">More...</a> </p> home aboutscec research resources education Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 PST http://www.earthquakecountry.info/dropcoverholdon/ <img src="http://www.earthquakecountry.info/dropcoverholdon/drop-cover-girl-gray.jpg" width='150' height='128' alt="" align="right" />In recent months an e-mail has been circulating which describes an alternative to the long-established "drop, cover, and hold on" method for earthquake safety. This email advocates the "triangle of life" method and other alternative actions to take during an earthquake. The email may seem to present reasonable advice and may seem to be from a credible source. However, the advice is potentially life-threatening, and the author has been broadly discredited. home aboutscec research resources education Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:00:00 PST http://www.scec.org/research/recentpub.html aboutscec research resources http://www.scec.org/education/public/eqbasics/index.html education http://www.scec.org/news/archive/index.html home aboutscec research resources education