1. Select 4 topics (4 topics for each assignment) from the information that is covered in the upcoming exam. Two must be from the book, two must be from class.
2. Select 4 articles (4 articles for each exam, one for each topic) from online NEWSPAPERS. They must be reliable newspapers and not an editorial or opinion piece from a newspaper. Also, it may NOT be from a blog or encyclopedia (or similar sources). It may not be from a scientific journal. It needs to be a CURRENT event, not a current article about a historical event. Not just an update or a statistic unless it is supported by an event (Suggestion: Pick a topic, run a “search”, click on “news” at the top of the search results check the date and select an article)
3. The article(s) must be dated within the last 365 days of the due date. If the dates are incorrect NO CREDIT for the assignment.
4. Relate two articles to two (2) topics of information from the textbook, (The chapter that the current exam will be covering) then relate two articles to two (2) lectures, or any other sources from this class. (Not informal talk before or after class)
5. Each topic of information is worth up to 5 points; (No points if articles are not included, No points if dates are not included)
Two points for each reference information (up to 4 references) also, include the URL of the Newspaper Reference. – The book, class lectures, Power Point or other class source must be referenced. If it is the book, you need a page number. If it is a Power Point reference, the name of the Power Point and the date you saw it. If it is lecture, give the topic and the date.
Example:
A. Article #1 dated 8/25/11 www.newyorktimes/earthquakes/index /1286/htm and page number 385 in the textbook.

Two points- One to two short sentences on how the article is related to the information selected. (See example) Basically, write, “The article stated… The book (or class notes) stated…”
Example:
B. The article stated that The earthquake was a 6.0 on the Richter scale.
The textbook stated that an earthquake of 6.0 on the Richter scale would cause severe damage.
One Point –for highlighting the date and quote ON the article (not on the part you write. (If either one is missing, no point)
6. Make certain that the date of the article is included. “Highlight” the part of the article for which you are making reference. (No credit is given if the article is not attached) (No credit if the date is not included- Adding the date will not be accepted.
7. Your answers must be written in college writing. (No instant message short hand, no inappropriate language, complete sentences, spelling etc.)
8. Create your document as a “word doc” (available for free use on College Web Page- Most other programs will allow you to “save as” in .doc format. No other formats will be accepted) Go to Blackboard and click on the course, then click on “Current event assignments” then the appropriate numbered assignment. Scroll down to “Assignment submission” and “browse my computer” (Do not use “type submission”) “attach” your assignment no later than 3PM of the class after the exam (See class schedule for dates). Turn it in early for extra credit! IF you do turn it in early, check back to see if any corrections are needed.

Current Event Assignment Checklist for each assignment
___ I have four (4) different topics
___ Two of my topics are from class (lecture, movie, or PowerPoint) ___ Two of my topics are from the book (include the page number) ___ The date for each article is within 365 days of the due date. ___My articles are from recognized newspapers or news
magazines and NOT from blogs, NOT from editorials, NOT from encyclopedias and NOT from encyclopedia or dictionary like sites such as “aboutgeography.com”
___ My articles are NOT from scientific journals. (I want news!) ___ I did not use a statistic unless it is supported by an “event” ___The URL is included in the part I wrote (See example)
___The book (page number) or class (class date) reference is included ___I related the articles to the class or book in one or two sentences ___I highlighted the date ON the article(s)
___I highlighted the quote to which I referred, ON the article(s)
___I have included the articles not just the URL’s
___ I have attached my assignment with articles in BlackBoard (one document)
___If I am having problems, I will get help from the instructor before
it is due
___I will turn everything in by the due date and 3PM on “BlackBoard”
Example Assignment for Format
If you don’t attach your articles, you will not get credit)
Current Event Assignment Exam #1 Name
TTH 8:00 AM
1. A. Article #1 dated 12/14/14 http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/earthquake-shakes- oklahoma-felt-in-Kansas-285747431.htmland page number 350 in the textbook.
B. The article stated that an earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale is the latest in a series that rattled parts of Oklahoma and Kansas on Sunday. The textbook stated that the Richter scale is a logarithmic scale represented by whole numbers and decimal fractions.
2. A. Article # 2 dated 12/14/14 http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/dec/14/earthquake- sanjacinto-sanandreas/and page number 351
B. The article states that the San Jacinto system is a 130-mile strike-slip fault. The textbook states that Strike-slip faults result when blocks move horizontally relative to one another.
3. A. Article #3 dated 9/27/14 http://www.kgw.com/story/news/local/mt-st- helens/2014/09/26/mount-st-helens-shows-signs-of-reawakening/16288495/and the power point on Mt. St. Helens on 2/16/15
B. The article states that “It looks like Mount St. Helens is getting ready to erupt again and it can happen in the order of years to decades,”. The Power Point stated that Mt. St Helens is likely to erupt again.
4. A. Article #4 dated 10/28/14 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/1028/Lava-from- Hawaii-volcano-picking-up-speed-say-officials-video and the movie on Hawaii on 2/22/15
B. The article stated the Pu’u O’o crater is part of Kilauea’s East Rift Zone. The movie stated that the lava coming from the East Rift Zone was burying houses in lava in the area.

Article #1
UPDATE: 4.0 temblor is 7th to rattle northern Oklahoma
Updated: Sun 8:57 PM, Dec 14, 2014 By: KAKE News Email
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WICHITA, Kan. —
The 4.0 was recorded just before 3:20 p.m. It was centered 1.8 miles northeast of Pawnee, Oklahoma and had a depth of 3.1 miles.
Several people in the Wichita area reported feeling the quake. There were six other quakes that hit northern Oklahoma on Sunday.
The first was a magnitude 4.3. It happened around 3:15 a.m. near Cherokee. The second, a 2.9, hit near the town of Pawnee about an hour later. It was followed by a 3.1 about five minutes later.
An earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale is the latest in a series that rattled parts
of Oklahoma and Kansas on Sunday.
The next two quakes hit about 20 minutes apart and were centered 13.6 miles west of Perry. A 3.8 occurred at 9:48 a.m., followed by a smaller 3.0 at 10:09 a.m.
Quake number six happened just after 1 p.m. Sunday, about six miles southeast of Helena. It was a 2.9. No injuries or damage were reported.
Article #2
New concerns about big quake fault
By Gary Robbins9:54 a.m.Dec. 14, 2014
The San Jacinto is the middle of the three red lines in this map. The San Andreas is located to the east and the Elsinore system is situated to the west. Southern California Earthquake Center
The San Jacinto fault, a twitchy system that cuts through East County, could produce larger earthquakes than scientists believed and may rival the San Andreas in power, according to research led by San Diego State University.
“A magnitude 7.5 was generally accepted to be the largest earthquake that would like occur on the fault,” said Tom Rockwell, an SDSU seismologist and the study’s leader. “We have shown that the central and northern
sections of the San Jacinto fault appear to fail together at times, and that would be in the magnitude 7.6 to 7.7 range.
SDSU’s Tom Rockwell is one of the world’s foremost authorities
on the San Jacinto fault. — Gary Robbins
“If it ruptures onto the San Andreas fault, it could approach a magnitude 8.0, although we don’t see evidence that that has happened in the past couple of thousand years. The take home here is that earthquakes on the San Jacinto fault potentially rival those on the San Andreas fault.”
The San Jacinto system is a 130-mile strike-slip fault that stretches from Imperial County through Anza, Ocotillo Wells and Borrego Springs into Riverside County and the San Bernardino Valley. Rockwell oversaw field studies that examined 21 seismic events that have occurred on the fault over the past 4,000 years. The study, recently published in the journal Pure and Applied Geophysics, was centered at Hog Lake, a spot near Anza.
The San Jacinto is part of the larger San Andreas fault, the dividing line between the Pacific and North American plates. Scientists say that the two faults are responsible for roughly 80 percent of the slippage along the plates. Rockwell has played a major role in revealing the path of the San Jacinto and reconstructing its history. Records show that the fault produced a magnitude 6.5 quake in April 1968. A different strand of the fault, known as Superstition Hills, produced a 6.7 quake in November 1987 that was strongly felt in San Diego.
Article 3
Mount St. Helens shows signs of reawakening
10:10 a.m. PDT September 27, 2014

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LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) – Ten years ago this week, Mount St. Helens awoke from an 18-year geological
slumber.
The news media and volcano-watchers flocked to Johnston Ridge, the closest road with a crater view. Steam and ash eruptions shot thousands of feet into the air, and for several weeks, the area near the volcano was closed because of safety concerns.
Over the next three years, a second lava dome slowly appeared in the crater, eventually rising 1,076 feet above the crater floor. By the time the eruption ended in 2008, climbers had already been allowed back to the summit and media attention faded.
New aerial photos of Mount St. Helens blast revealed
Though the mountain isn’t getting as much publicity these days, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey are marking the anniversary to highlight new eruption warning technology they’ve installed around the volcano since then and to remind people that Mount St. Helens will continue to rebuilt itself.

The eruption that started a decade ago was the second of two dome-building phases.
The first one started after the explosive eruption of May 18, 1980. Twenty lava eruptions occurred over the next six years.
Geologists were surprised that the mountain stopped erupting in 1986. “Many of us were expecting it to continue a while,” said USGS seismologist Seth Moran.
The second lava dome, which started appearing in 2004, appeared at a different spot in the crater. Lava that appeared from 2004-08 was much more solid than during the earlier phase.
Even though the lava dome hasn’t erupted since 2008, its shape still is changing.
“As it cools, it fractures and settles and falls apart,” said Dan Dzurisin, a USGS geologist. Rockfall has also been changing the shape of the crater rim.
And 5 miles below the volcano, there are signs that the magma chamber that fueled both eruptions is recharging. Dzurisin said the USGS is focusing on the rate of recharging and whether the magma can compress in the chamber, rather than flowing toward an outlet to the earth’s surface.
Magma levels rising inside Mount St. Helens
Though the USGS was able to predict the 2004 eruption by monitoring earthquakes, “it exposed some weaknesses in our monitoring,” Moran said.
In September of 2004, the USGS had only one GPS device near the volcano, at Johnston Ridge. That device did indeed start to move during the eruption. After the new dome appeared, the USGS landed a helicopter in the crater and had a worker put a GPS there.
“Three days later there was an explosion that wiped out that site,” Moran said. “That really forced us to get creative about how to get instruments in close.”
The scientists then devised a way of dropping a seismometer from a helicopter.
Since then, the agency has installed numerous GPS receivers around the Northwest. The instruments continually measure a change of location of as little as one millimeter. Data from the receivers combined with video from remote cameras had allowed the USGS to reduce the exposure of its researchers to hazardous situations, Dzurisin said.
Over the centuries, Mount St. Helens has gone through phases of explosive eruptions and periods of rebuilding itself with magma eruptions.
Geologists expect future dome-building eruptions at the volcano.
Moran said.
Those eruptions will likely be similar to the one that started a decade ago and no massive eruption like the one in 1980 is expected. “Part of that is that there isn’t as nearby big a cork,” Moran said.
Eventually, the crater will fill in and the peak may return to the lovely rounded shape it had before 1980.
A model may be the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, which erupted in 1956 and has largely filled in since then. “It probably is the future for Mount St. Helens,” Moran said. “It will rebuilt itself. It may just take a lot longer to get there.”
”It looks like Mount St. Helens is getting
ready to erupt again and it can happen in the order of years to decades,”
Article #4
Lava from Hawaii volcano picking up speed, say officials (+video)
A lava flow from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has picked up speed and is moving northeast at between 15 and 20 miles per hour.
By Megan Gannon, LiveScience October 28, 2014
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An oozing lava flow from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano picked up speed over the weekend, prompting local authorities and residents to prepare for possible evacuations on the Big Island.
The molten rock has been sporadically creeping downslope toward the small village of Pahoa. As of last night (Oct. 26), a portion of the lava stream had engulfed the Pahoa cemetery, according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
The volcanic flow has been moving northeast at a rate of 15 to 20 yards (13.7 to 18.2 meters) an hour, according to an update from Hawaii’s Civil Defense Agency. Though residents of Pahoa have not yet been ordered to flee, emergency responders were going door to door yesterday in the immediate area to inform residents about the flow conditions and possible evacuation plans. The Red Cross also opened an emergency shelter in the nearby town of Keaau, HawaiiNewsNow reported. [See Photos of the Lave Flowing from Kilauea]
As of last night, at 9:30 p.m. local time (3:30 a.m. today EDT), the lava was just 600 yards (550 m) from Pahoa Village Road, and a portion of the street has been closed. The Civil Defense Agency warned that smoke conditions may worsen in some areas downwind of the lava flow as it burns through grass and vegetation. Scientists are also concerned about methane explosions that have been observed in the lava flow,NBC News reported. Pockets of trapped gas from decomposing plants trigger the blasts.
The so-called June 27th flow, named for the day it first spewed from a vent in Kilauea’s Pu’u O’o crater, has inflated to chest-high depths in some areas as fresh lava accumulates under the flow’s hard crust. The glowing orange to orange-yellow edges of the lava flow can reach temperatures higher than 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit (900 degrees Celsius), according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
Pu’u O’o crater is part of Kilauea’s East Rift Zone, where vents and cracks have been spilling lava nonstop since 1983. Kilauea’s continuous, 30-year eruption has wrecked dozens of nearby buildings in the surrounding area of Hawaii’s Puna region, including the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park visitor center at Wahaula, the Royal Gardens subdivision and many homes and buildings in the town of Kalapana.
Scientists with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory planned to continue monitoring the flow from the ground and had scheduled a flight over the area as well.
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