One city - two earthquakes

One City - Two Earthquakes


WALT: Making connections between different readings that I have read.








Statement


Agree/ Disagree


Page


Explanation and Evidence

The first big earthquake that hit Christchurch was on 4th September 2010


Agree


8


“The magnitude 7.1 quake that shook Christchurch at 4:35am. on 4 September 2010.”

The second earthquake was 3 months later.


disagree


10


The first earthquake was 4th september 2010, the second earthquake was 22 february 2011

People were very worried that many people had been injured in the Cathedral.


disagree


10


There were only a bit of people injured but not badly.

An earthquake has less impact when a fault line runs through it.


agree


10


The sentence i found the answer says “An earthquake is more devastating if a fault line runs through it”.

The ground was shaking more violently in the September earthquake.


disagree


10


Actually the february one was a bit stronger then the previous one.

There are no earthquakes in New Zealand.


disagree


?


I don’t know if there is a page about this but I know for sure there is earthquakes in new zealand.

There are often minor tremors that people don’t even feel.


disagree /agree


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There could be...

There has been no tremors or earthquakes since the February earthquake.






















Making Connections








September Earthquake


Similarities


February Earthquake



The builders had thought they would need to pull the houses down.


The ground shook more then the february one.




It was an earthquake,


It was in christchurch




Actually the february earthquake was worse with the houses because the earthquake did 2x as much damage to the houses.