Synopsis for Lesson 8.5:

Title: "Evaluating an Illinois Earthquake"

Grade Level: 7 - 8

Objectives: On completion of this lesson, students will be able to:

1. To show, using real data, how the distribution of damage from an earthquake is dependent on regional geology.
2. Recognize the terms: earthquake, epicenter, intensity, magnitude, Modified Mercalli intensity scale, Richter magnitude scale, seismograph.