Powerpoint files of lectures, including class activities,
developed for Illinois Earthscope teachers' workshop
February 12-13, 2011 at Illinois State University, organized by R. Nelson.

These lectures are based on

Disaster Deferred: How New Science is Changing
Our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest
by S. Stein (Columbia University Press, 2010)

and

Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure,
by S. Stein and M. Wysession (Blackwell Publishing, 2003).

Topic 1: Introduction
Activity 1.1: Did you feel it?
Activity 1.2: New Madrid versus California

Topic 2: The 1811-1812 earthquakes
Activity 2.1: If the 1811 earthquake happened today
Activity 2.2: Fault parameters, seismic moment and magnitude

Topic 3: Disasters, pseudodisasters, and critical thinking
Activity 3.1: Disaster preparation
Activity 3.2: Duct tape response
Activity 3.3: Common concerns
Activity 3.4: Critical thinking

Topic 4: How the ground shakes
Activity 4.1: Seismic wave speeds

Topic 5: How earthquakes work
Activity 5.1: GPS clock
Activity 5.2: GPS across the San Andreas
Activity 5.3: Long term slip and earthquake recurrence on the San Andreas
Activity 5.4: Time between earthquakes from paleoseosmology
Activity 5.5: Earthquake prediction

Topic 6: Earthquakes that shouldn't happen
Activity 6.1: Wilson cycle
Activity 6.2: Midcontinent Rift

Topic 7: What's going on at New Madrid?
Activity 7.1: Mystery box
Activity 7.2: Why New Madrid?

Topic 8: Faults switching on and off
Activity 8.1: Booby-trap
Activity 8.2: Complex systems

Topic 9: As dangerous as California?
Activity 9.1: Fermi estimation
Activity 9.2: Time-independent or time-dependent probability

Topic 10: What to do?
Activity 10.1: Assessing hazards and mitigation measures
Activity 10.2: Talking to your students