Step one

When did something like this happen happen before?

~In the evening of August 31, 1886, the city of Charleston South Carolina

~ it is one of the most powerful and damaging earthquakes to hit the southeastern United States

~The intraplate event occurred at about 9:50 pm and lasted just under a minute. It caused severe damage in Charleston, damaging 2,000 buildings and causing between five and eight million worth in damage

Roman: How did this type of event (earthquake) impact civilizations?

- homes crumble- if you survived you have to either make a makeshift home or move to another place.

- lakes drain- no public water, floods, and no more safe water

- tsunami- floods, mold contamination, no supply for homes, deaths

-landslides- blocking off roads, crushing everything in its path, deaths

- fries- forest burn, homes burn, fertile soil

-cracks in the earth- homes crumble

- shaking- no more stable ground could break at any time

-destruction of homes and buildings- have to move, no supply's

Sky Chappell-

How did this event impact the GTS?

- it either created a new era or epoch since a catastrophic event.

Did this even create extinctions or adaptations? Or both?

-both because we have to adaptate to the new conditions

- extinctions because a bunch of people will die from disease, destruction, stavartion.

Daisi Mok~

How do organisms rebound?

- rabbits and small critters rebuild homes

- squirrels move to woodlands

- birds need to relocate

- deer need to reproduce due to deaths

- fish need to be untoxicated