1. Read at least 4 or 5 of the personal accounts written by individuals who experienced an earthquake. Most of the eyewitness reports below were written many years ago, but some were recorded as recently as 1999.  Select accounts from both long ago and from the last twenty years.
• Famous Earthquake Accounts: Mark Twain, Jack London, Charles Darwin, John Muir
• Eyewitness accounts of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
• Eyewitness accounts from Turkey quake
• Eyewitness to Disaster: California Earthquake Accounts (scroll down to find reports from the 1980's and 1990's)
2. Use examples from the eyewitness accounts above to answer the following questions in your project journal / notebook OR in the space below.
1. How did the earthquakes affect the personal lives of people you read about?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. How did earthquakes affect their communities as a whole?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Were there differences in the reactions of the writers from different time periods? What were they?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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