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Test Your Earthquake Knowledge With Quake Quiz

by Caleb Johnson on June 8, 2009 at 10:38 AM


The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management wants to make earthquakes, or at least learning about earthquakes, fun. In order to accomplish this, they created a Quake Quiz Web site, which features tips on how to prepare and react when an quake occurs.

The site features an interactive quiz that places the user in six different scenarios -- at home, on the beach, in the car, at work, and at a restaurant. When each scenario begins, the screen violently shakes, and a question with three possible answers appears on the screen. After correctly answering the question, the user is guided to the next step and is offered several tips, made visible by clicking different objects on the page.




The site is very intuitive, and the mostly black-and-white animations add a bit of a cool factor to learning about disaster preparedness. The quiz also links to another site called 72Hours.org that helps users prepare for the aftermath of a natural disaster. We are all for spreading awareness about how to prepare and respond to natural disasters, particularly when packaged in such an attractive and intuitive site.

For those of you who can't get enough information about earthquakes, the U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake Web site has a ton of resources. The site features puzzles and games for kids, videos of earthquakes, and a calendar of earthquakes throughout history. [From: Quake Quiz and U.S. Geological Survey]

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