San Francisco, in northern California, is a hilly city on the tip of a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. It's known for its year-round fog, iconic Golden Gate Bridge, and cable cars, but is at risk for a major earthquake. San Francisco is built on the north american plate with it moving against a transform boundary, with the Pacific plate. A transform boundary is when two plates slide against each other, causing many earthquakes since San Francisco is on the west coast of the north american plate. One earthquake that you might’ve heard of is the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, which was caused by the transform boundary. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8, which is described as a major earthquake, with
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We predict that this will limit casualties in San Francisco since most casualties come from buildings falling on top of people and fires sparking due to the building falling, so if the building doesn’t fall, it will limit casualties, answering our how might we question.
Brief instructions for how to build buildings:
First you would cut off the bendy parts if the straw, but don’t throw them away, as we will connect them later on for retrofitting
First you will glue 2 straws together to make an x shape, using and/or string to connect them
Next you will make 4 sides of 4 tall and 1 wide frame made of popsicle sticks and glue
Then you will glue and tape the X’s to the boxes to retrofit the sides
After you will glue the sides with the retrofitted poles together to make a rectangular prism
Finally, get the bendy parts of the straw and connect them into xs, filling in the empty spaces, retrofitting them
We predict that this will limit casualties in San Francisco since most casualties come from buildings falling on top of people and fires sparking due to the building falling, so if the building doesn’t fall, it will limit casualties, answering our how might we question.
Brief instructions for how to build buildings:
First you would cut off the bendy parts if the straw, but don’t throw them away, as we will connect them later on for retrofitting
First you will glue 2 straws together to make an x shape, using and/or string to connect them
Next you will make 4 sides of 4 tall and 1 wide frame made of popsicle sticks and glue
Then you will glue and tape the X’s to the boxes to retrofit the sides
After you will glue the sides with the retrofitted poles together to make a rectangular prism
Finally, get the bendy parts of the straw and connect them into xs, filling in the empty spaces, retrofitting them