Earthquake Math Trail

Below is a table of earthquakes with high casualties throughout the world since 1970.

Year

Country

Deaths

Magnitude

1)	Calculate the mean, median, and mode of the deaths caused by these earthquakes.
2)	Calculate the maximum and mean of the magnitudes.
3)	Discuss the connection between the magnitude of an earthquake and the deaths it causes.
4)	Display the data in a scatter plot. Do the points create any recognizable function?
5)	Using the information from part 3, can you estimate what the death-toll might be if a magnitude 8.4 earthquake were to strike the Vancouver area?

1976

Phillippines

7.0

1971

U.S.

6.6

1983

Japan

7.7

1979

Indonesia

100

0.1

1977

Argentina

100

8.2

1977

Indonesia

200

8.0

1976

New Guinea

443

7.1

1979

Ecuador

800

7.9

1976

Italy

945

6.5

1970

Turkey

1086

7.4

1983

Turkey

1300

7.1

1977

Romania

1541

7.5

1990

Philippines

1621

7.7

1995

Russia

2000

7.6

1975

Turkey

2312

6.8

1992

Indonesia

2500

7.5

1982

Yemen

2800

8.0

1992

Turkey

4000

6.2

1987

Ecuador

4000

7.3

1976

Turkey

4000

7.8

1986

Mexico

4200

8.1

1980

Algeria

4500

7.3

1980

Italy

4800

7.2

1979

Nicaragua

5000

6.9

1972

Iran

5057

6.9

1974

Pakistan

5200

6.3

1995

Japan

5477

7.2

1993

India

9748

6.4

1970

China

10000

7.7

1976

Guatemala

22779

7.5

1978

Iran

25000

7.7

1990

Iran

40000

7.7

1988

Armenia

55000

6.8

1970

Peru

68794

7.7

1976

China

242000

8.2