LSRHS Science Department: Earth Science

An earthquake recorded by the L-S seimograph:

Magnitude 2.5 - October 19, 2007- Littleton, Massachusetts- 05:23:52 UTC - 42.537N, 71.496W

Click here to see the L-S recording

Click here to go to the USGS information

Earth Science Teachers (2010-2011):

Earth Science Courses:

Related elective courses:

Astronomy (not offered 2010-2011)
Environmental Science (not offered 2010- 2011)

Earthquakes recorded at Lincoln-Sudbury

Lincoln-Sudbury is part of the Princeton Earth Physics Project, gathering seismic data and making it available over the internet. Earthquakesfrom as close as Westford and a far away as Antarctica have been recorded at L-S. L-S is one of approximately 50 schools in the USA (5 in New England) that participate in this project.

More about PEPP, and data recorded at L-S and other PEPP schools, can be found at the PEPP web site. The August 17, 1999 Turkey earthquake provided fine recordings from a number of facilities with PEPP seismographs. Click here if you would like to see four recordings.

On September 12, 2007 a magnitude 8.4 earthquake occurred under Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at 11:10:26 UTC , 4.520S, 101.374E Later a mag 7.9 quake (Sept. 12 at 23:49:04 UTC and a mag 7.0 quake (Sept. 13 at 03:35:26 UTC) occurred in the same area. Click here to see the LS recording of the three earthquakes. This recording clearly shows how much more ground motion there is in a magnitude 8.4 earthquake than in a magnitude 7.0 quake.