Earthquake in Taiwan

Greetings to all Project Participants:

Yesterday an earthquake of magitude 7.6 hit Taiwan, the home of one of the collaborative partners in this project. A 9th grade physical science class from the

Kaohsiung American School in Kaohsiung, Taiwan had registered for the project and was very excited about participating in the experiment. Our thoughts are with the

people in Taiwan now who are just trying to recover from this devasting event.

If you are interested in finding out more about this earthquake and Taiwan, here are a few links that you can look at:

CNN's Coverage of the earthquake in Taiwan http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9909/20/taiwan.quake.03/

Map of location of epicenter of earthquake http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9909/20/taiwan.quake.03/map.taiwan.nantou.jpg

Map of Taiwan showing location of Kaohsiung http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/tw.html

Map of Asia showing location of Taiwan http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/figures/802591.jpg

Real time earthquake information from the USGS (slow download time) http://gldss7.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html

Stevens Musical Plates Curriculum Module - Earthquakes/Plate Tectonics (additional earthquake links) http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/musicalplates/index.html

John Park, Project Leader