Now that we've figured out how heat affects rocks, we're turning back to our earthquake map and data on both Mt. Everest and Ridgecrest, CA. We are seeing that earthquakes can leave cracks in the ground, and that these cracks must go deep into the ground if parts of the land rise up and others move downward. With the help of an earthquake simulator and lots of data from aerial pictures of what happened at Ridgecrest, we've built out two models:
We've got so many questions around what's going on at these fault lines, or where the plates (large pieces of bedrock) seem to be moving! With our new questions and our next steps planned out, it seems like we're really thinking about what those plates do!