Earthquakes in Your Backyard
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Students will discover the geologic activity happening all around them right now. The workshop will examine Southern California’s fault systems and look at recent earthquake activity using online tools from the US Geological Survey. Students will learn how to interpret an earthquake’s magnitude, and they will conduct an experiment to help them understand the mechanics of earthquake faults.
This is an in-person workshop.
GRADES: 3rd-5th
Tierrasanta Library
One of San Diego's first master planned communities, Tierrasanta was founded in 1971 and the first library opened in 1979 as a 1,200-square-foot building with just 6,000 volumes in the collection. Construction on a larger building began two years later and the current library opened in 1984. A 2019 renovation increased the library’s size with the addition of a seminar room and reading patio and an expansion of the library’s community room. Approximately 70,900 materials now make up the library's collection and, with several schools in the area, juvenile materials account for half of the annual circulation.