Download File - Geography

The time difference between New York
and San Francisco is 3 hours
Toby sees a massive crack appear in
the side of his house
The Earth’s crust is split in to large chunks
called tectonic plates
Earthquakes often occur on fault
lines
Where two plates meet is called a fault
line
At 6.03am Toby was getting ready
for school
At 6.07am small tremors were registered
by scientists monitoring fault lines
Tremors is another word for a small
earthquake
At 6.11am Toby felt his home begin to
shake
At 6.12am Toby and his mum stood
in the door way – just like the
advert advised
Scientists have studied the best way to
At 9.30am Marina sees on the news
survive an earthquake and have published that there has just been an
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earthquake in San Francisco
At 6.13am Toby and his mum leave their
house and stand in the garden – the
ground around them is still shaking!
Toby and his mum cannot re-enter
their house because it is too
dangerous
Scientists register an earthquake that
reaches 7.2 on the Richter Scale
At 6.43am an aftershock rocks
Toby’s house once more and sends
it to the ground
Marina reads about an earthquake that
happened in Haiti in 2010 – this one
reached 7.0 on the Richter Scale
Toby and his mum look into buying
a new house
Damaged buildings are rebuilt using
earthquake proof technologies
Toby sees a damaged water pipe
outside his house