Recent Earthquakes.

1. Most earthquakes occur on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.

2. The reason most earthquakes occur there is because most faults are there.

3. This area is called the Circum-Pacific Belt, which better known as the "Ring of Fire".

4. The earthquake closest to North Carolina occured in southeast Missouri.

5. An earthquake occured on September 3 at 1:28:59 UTC in southeast Missouri. UTC is the international time zone. The magnitude was 2.7. The depth was 5.8 miles. It occured on the New Madrid Fault.

Real life example of mass movement!

This is a picture from Chiapas, Mexico. Someone inside a helicopter has taken this picture after a mudslide. The mudslide has left 16 people missing, feared dead. International aid is being sent to help this village and the other villages affected by the heavy rains. Even the capital is struggling from the rains.

What are the six crystal forms? Name one mineral for each form.

Cubic: Halite

Tetragonal: Wulfenite

Hexagonal: Beryl

Orthorhombic: Arogonite

Monoclinic: Orthoclass

Triclinic: microline

What is the best renewable resource?

Personally, i think there is no one best renewable resource. Each resource has it's own advantages and disadvantages. Whatever resource is best depends on where your using it. For example, if it's very windy at a certain place, wind power is the best resource. If it's always sunny, like in California, solar power is a much beter chose. The best resource depends on the location.

Which is your fav. map projection?

Personally, the Gnomic map projection is my favorite. It's usually hard to acurrately see the two poles on a map, but the Gnomic makes this simple. Thus, this map can show stuff the other map projections can't acurrately show. Plus, it shows other areas good too. This makes the Gnomic map projection the best map possible.

Blog Question

Meteorology is my favorite part of earth science. I am always fascinated by the weather and I love to learn about it.