The Southern California
Integrated GPS Network Education Module
Exploring the
use of space technology in earthquake studies
Table of Contents
Section
1: Plate tectonics
Structure
of the Earth
History
of plate tectonics
Plates
Plate
boundaries
Forces
in the Earth
Faults
Hypercard
resources
Activities
Section
2: Earthquakes
What are
earthquakes?
Types of
earthquakes
Forces
What causes
stress?
Elasticity
Waves
Detection
and recording
Measurement
A new type
of measurement
Activities
Section
3: GPS
What is
GPS?
How does
it work?
GPS in earthquake
studies
Using GPS
to measure earthquakes
Activities
Section
4: Space technology at work
What
is SCIGN?
Who runs
it? Who has access?
What happens
to the SCIGN data?
How are
the SCIGN data used?
More information
about SCIGN
Activities
People
in SCIGN
Glossary
Comments
and suggestions
About
this module
Concepts
covered
Title
page
Last modified on 8/24/98 by Maggi Glasscoe (scignedu@jpl.nasa.gov)
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