Earthquakes and Tectonics of the Pacific Northwest: Educational Outreach for Teachers, Students and Communities

西北太平洋的地震和构造：教师、学生和社区的教育外展该项目支持开发一个在线地质展览和一个访问地质学家计划，作为华盛顿大学伯克自然历史和文化博物馆为学生、教师和公众开展的教育外展活动的一部分。该倡议由三个综合和互补的方案组成：1）一个题为太平洋西北部地震和构造的巡回展览，2）一个访问地质学家方案，与当地学校和公民团体进行个人互动，3）一个新一代互联网展览，题为西北起源：太平洋西北部的地质演变，探讨了倡议主题，并促进了大的参与可视化-大规模的构造过程在地质时期创造了太平洋西北部。该倡议是为了应对最近的大地震，广泛影响整个西部华盛顿和俄勒冈州的居民。一次重大地震事件的个人经历极大地提高了公众对太平洋西北部活跃的构造过程的兴趣。该项目的目标是更好地教育公民和学生关于地质事件，创造地震，地震发生的不同构造环境，这些构造过程在地质时期创造太平洋西北部土地中发挥的作用，以及正在进行的研究计划的意义。

ABSTRACTEarthquakes and Tectonics of the Pacific Northwest:An Educational Outreach for Teachers, Students and CommunitiesThis project supports development of an online geological exhibit and a visiting geologist program as part of an educational outreach initiative for students, teachers and the public by The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture of the University of Washington. The initiative consists of three integrated and complementary programs: 1) A traveling exhibit entitled in Earthquakes and Tectonics of the Pacific Northwest, 2) a visiting geologist program to interact personally with local schools and citizen groups, and 3) a new generation Internet exhibit entitled, Northwest Origins: Geologic Evolution of the Pacific Northwest that explores the initiative topics and promotes engaging visualization of the large-scale tectonic processes that have created the Pacific Northwest over geologic time. The initiative is in response to the recent major earthquake that broadly affected residentsthroughout western Washington and Oregon. Personal experience with a major seismic event has greatly heightened public interest in tectonic processes active in the Pacific Northwest. The goals of the project are to better educate citizens and students about the geologic events thatcreate earthquakes, the different tectonic settings in which earthquakes occur, the role these tectonic processes have played in creating the lands of the Pacific Northwest over geologic time, and the significance of ongoing research programs.