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Describe the potential for earthquake damage worldwide.

I was given the following 2 websites to use but having trouble.

Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program Web site or the USGS Earthquake Hazards site.

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Describe the potential for earthquake damage worldwide.

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This assignment is difficult to do with just the hazard map, as you have noticed. The Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program shows the earth in different colors indicating the probability and severity of earthquakes. See http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/gshap/. The colors range from green to yellow to red to indicate increasing peak ground acceleration. It's kind of pretty. But, without additional information, it doesn't really provide you with what you need.

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