Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Data Handling (authentic study)

source: Reuters, US Geological Survey and Xinhua
edited by Mr Johari

The Recent earthquake phenomena in New Zealand and Japan have impacted many countries globally. The frequency of the earthquakes was tracked and statistical evidence was gathered and presented in the following diagram.

Study the diagram and answer the following question.



Leading Question:
Identify a possible trend in the global earthquakes pattern based on the survey conducted by the US Geological Survey.
Post your response as a posting in comment.

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  2. The earth quakes travel in crosses(x) pattern and the magnitude have more increases than decreases.

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  3. They all happened around feb and march.

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  4. The main quake has spreaded to any island that is near it and causing magnitudes but smaller than the main

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  5. it usually happened in march but then there is one or two cases in japan and feb

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  6. The pattern is that the quake travels in a (x) pattern

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  7. They all happened about feb or march and the magnitude of the quakes increases more than it decreases

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  8. All the earthquakes happened within the Pacific Ring of Fire

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  9. They all happened during March and late Feb.
    They all happend near coastal areas.

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  10. They all happened in the sea and form a letter L

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  11. They happen in certain places like in a pattern and none were on the same day?

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  12. they increase in frequency as the months go by

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  13. Agree with Charmaine about the Pacific Ring of Fire

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  14. The major quakes which took more lives than the others occurs near the ocean.

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  15. The earthquakes happen close to each other, in terms of distance. When one part of the sea has earthquake, there would be another earthquake in that area a while later.

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  16. They happen mostly in March

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  17. The frequency of the magnitude of the earthquake each time is mostly within the 6.0 to the 7.2 range.

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  18. Most of the quakes are in march and are mostly 6.0 and above

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  19. As the time goes by the number of earthquake that happened increased.The frequency of the days between each earthquake also increased.

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  20. They are all happening around march

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