Texas Educational Seismic Project
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Shaking and Damage Intensity Maps
Recent DFW Earthquakes – M3.1 – 4km NE of Irving, Texas
– image courtesey of Weston Observatory
Why now?
“An essential goal for us then is to encourage our teacher and student colleagues to raise their experience of science to higher levels of engagement and to encourage them to experience firsthand what it means to be a scientist.”.
https://www2.bc.edu/~kafka/SeismoEd_SRL/SRL776_EduQuakes.htm
The “Big One”
In 1931, the west Texas town of Valentine experienced Texas’ “big one.” It had a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter Scale and was strongly recorded on seismographs across the globe. Evidently, it made quite a mess of the small town, too.
–source: http://blog.chron.com/factistics/2011/03/houston-earthquakes/
“Whole Lot of Shakin” Going On”
Elvis might be surprised with the recent seismic activity in Irving, Texas
Did you feel it?
It was recorded at Nacogdoches, TX — about 145 miles from the epicenter. The P-wave arrived at about 00:52:45, and the S-wave arrived at about 00:…53:10.
For more information about this seismogram, and other seismology research in Texas, see the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics —
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