high 67
low 56
now 61
rainy
earthquakes: california & alaska

~ben

The Big Blob

According to http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526171813.htm, there is a dripping blob under the Great Basin

Parts of the lithosphere have sunk into the upper mantle and formed a blob of materiel below Nevada. The blob is caused by the lithosphere dripping into an area, where it builds up and hardens.

~Ellie~

World's Biggest Tsunami

On June 9th, 1958 there was an earthquake along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle that loosened about 40 million cubic yards of rock above the northern shore of Lituya Bay. The rock fell from about 3000 feet into the waters of Gilbert Inlet. The impact started a local tsunami that crashed against the southwest coastline of Gilbert Inlet. It was so powerful that hit the land that seperates Gilbert Inlet from the main body of Lituya Bay. The wave continued down the entire length of Lituya Bay. The force of the wave removed all the trees and vegetation from as high as 1720 feet above sea level. This was the highest wave ever known.

http://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtml
ARIEL

San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a sliding boundary between the Pacific and North American plates. It cuts California into two pieces from Cape Mendocino to the Mexican border. It is a transform fault. The plates slowly move past each other, a couple inches a year. For a few years the plates will be locked in place and won't move and push against each other. The build up strains and breaks the rock along the fault. The breaking rock sends waves in all directions. The waves feel like the waves from an earthquake. In places like Carrizo Plain and the Olema Trough you can easily see the fault as scraps and pressure ridges.

http://geology.com/articles/san-andreas-fault.shtml


ARIEL

Ellie's Blog!

Todays Weather!
Temp: 64 degrees
Cloudy
Humidity: 90%
Wind: From NE at 11 mph

Earthquakes!
In the past hour there ahve been 4 earthquakes in California and 1 in Hawaii

~Ellie~
P.S Happy Memorial Day
P.P.S Calvin and Hobbes Clip of the Day!

Science Daily Article

In this article, found at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429132256.htm is about how new studies at the Scripps Istitute of Oceanogrophy show that the Lake Tahoe region of the United States may be due for a major earthquake.

Many different tests, showing how often a level 7.0 earthgquake occurs in the Lake Tahoe region, states that the area is overdue for a large earthquake. the studies are showing that a major earthquake happens once every 2000 to 3000 years, and that the last earthquake of that size was over 4000 years ago.

Different studies show that if an earthquake of the predicted size were to hit the region, Lake Tahoe could give off tsunami waves 10 to 33 feet in height, which could prove to be a very difficult situation to communities on the shore of the lake.


-Matthew Kavanaugh

sunday weather

on Sunday it was cloudy and it looked like it was about to rain,
high of 72 degrees Fahrenheit and a low of 62 degrees Fahrenheit but feels like 66 degrees Fahrenheit.

there have been 2 earthquakes in the last hour in california and 2 in the last hour in hawii.
~ natalie

Today is Thursday the 21st 2009. The temperature for today was around 80 degrees Fahrenheit or 27 degrees Celsius. The humidity is around 38% with low winds and clear skies. In class we are learning about geology so, today we made homemade seismometers out of books, boxes, string, rulers and other various objects. -micah

Shaken Quakes.

Todays Earthquake is....

the tacoma earthquake in washington

hear is some footage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4mFh-I1Epc

awsome!

science blog

The Easter Island were formed by 3 overlapping shield volcanoes.  then fissures caused the land to become islands. We now know that the Easter Islands were created by volcanic activity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429091226.htm 

from sam  

today by max sosland

HI EVERYBODY!!!

today is a wonderful day. it is currently

74 degrees farenheit at my house but is probably

similar to all you guys. the wind is at 23 mph

and the humidity is around 41%. the uv index

is 2 low. i dont know if that is good or bad.

We didnt have much homework. in

science we had to do that packet and some

RNV's and stuff. we also had math.

see yall l8r!

Max

P.S. i got my bottom braces today! they

hurt

Hey it's Alex!! The weather for today is that it's 54 degrees, and clear skies. There's no wind or precipitation. It was a beautiful sunny day! Also, today there was an Earthquake in the Greater Los Angeles area with a magnitude of 5.0. Luckily, there were no reports of casualties or damage. The homework for Monday was to do reading notes and vocab for 2.2. Also, there was a worksheet and vocab for 2.1. That's all folks!!

ScienceDaily Article

The link to the page is http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512093254.htm

What this article is about is that charcoal is about three times worse for the environment than liquid-petroleum-gas. It has been proved that the efficiency of charcoal is 20-35 percent. In contrast, LPG has an efficiency rate of greater than 90 percent.

Also, LPG cookers have been deemed more conventional, being that they have power swithces and power levels for cooking. Charcoal cookers have no such options, and do not necesarily have the ability to regulate fuel consumption.

-Matthew

Matt's Weather Posting

Today's Weather:

Temp: 74 F
Humidity: 82%
Wind: From the WNW at 12 mph
Sunrise: 6:07
Sunset: 8:23

-Matt

Kara's Blog for May 12, 2009

HEy Everyone!!!
It;s kara i couldnt blog yesterday my computer was down. But im blogging today for yesterday.
Ok So-----
Tuesday May 12, 2009
High- 69
Low- 53
Precip- 0.09

It sprinkled on and off....while i was at lissa's championship soccor game it started to rain in double over time!

Well thats all!!!
luv ya!
KARA

it's 7:30 pm on monday may 11th.
it's cloudy today and not the warmest weve had lately.
it's 69` right now.
high is 69`, low is 55`.
no rain.
earthquakes in california and the tail of alaska.

~Ben

My Extra Blog

Hi every one this is Kara. I just realized that I havent been titling any of my blogs i dont think except for like one. I also realized that I bloged once on the wrong account so Mr. Welton when your checking keep that in mind

Ok so here's a summery of an article on sciencedaily.com


http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/climate.htm (article)
I chose this article on climate because i thought it would work being that we just finished a climate unit.

CLimate is the average weather recorded over a large time-span. Weather is events that happen in the atmoshpere in a specfic place. Climate is overall. The factors that determine climate are latitude, altitude, proportion of land to water, and distance from oceans and mountains.
THere are more dynamic climates too. For example: The thermohaline circulation of the ocean gives energy from heat between the equatorial and polar regions; other ocean currents do the same between land and water on a bigger scale.
The amount of vegetation coverage has an affect on solar heat and how much it absorbs, water retention, and also rainfall.
Changes in the amount of greenhouse gasses determines the amount of solar energy the planet can hold which basicly leads to global warming or even global cooling.
There are many factors which determine climate and some are very, very complex. But now there is a general agreement as to what they are. Although it is very possible that we find more factors in the near future!



WOw!!! ok theee eeeennnddd ill be bak tomorrow to blog about the real weather!!! :D
luv ya!!
kara

Sorry my computer was temporarily not working on Friday and i couldn't go on the computer on Saturday so here is Fridays Blog!!

The weather was extremely nice out- not too hot but not too cold. JUST RIGHT!!
Mild winds.

Friday - Mostly cloudy with a chance for showers and t-storms mainly in the morning.
High: 76
Low: 50

Earthquakes- there was a recent earthquake in norther and southern California and off the coast of Ecuador.
According to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/

~Natalie :)

may 7th by sam

so i was suppose to blog sunday but i was in AZ soooooooooooooooo im blogging today.

Earthquakes in Sumatra are caused by the Indian plate moving into the Asian plates, which also caused the himalayas to form. if the entire region is not taken up by a fault slip during an Earthquake, then a deficit occures until the next one.This is because of the asperites along the plate boundary. But, layers of coral reefs appear where there is a major Earthquake, and if it is up or down states when an Earthquake was.  so we can determine when another Earthquake comes by finding the asperity locations they may be able to make more accurate assumptions of the Earthquake time.