tupac would have been proud...
hilary: *walking along* BOMOCHAAA CHAAA *beat boxin*… what a nice day. It’s so great to be a Seismologists, and to study earthquakes and try to understand dem! As well as map dem! Life is good forizzle!!
OH HECKZ NO!!IT SEEMS AN EARTHQUAKE OF EPIC PROPORTION IS HEADING STRAIGHT FOR PALMERSTON (DA P DOT)……ONTARIO CANADA! Oh no! How am I supposed to get there to warn the poor homiez when I live in D TROIT??
AHH! MAH HOMEZ GOT MEZ A HOVACRAFT! I HOPE ALL MY BLING BLING WONT WEIGH ME DOWN!
*run of to side*
MEANWHILE BACK IN THE P DOT….
jessica: yo man, tha was some happenin partayy!!
sam: ohhhh heckz yeah man!!! I liked the part where I jumped off da roofz.
sam+Jessica: DA ROOF DA ROOF DA ROOF IS ON FIAHH! YEAHHHH *pack it*
Jessica: good times, good times. Sorry bout yo arm my brotha from another motha.
sam: true dat.
*start shaking*
Jessica: Holy TUPAC! Is the earth off da hook or what?
Sam: I think izz ona those swirly wind thangs!! A TORNAOD?OOZZ?
Jessica: NAAHHH IZZA A HURRICANE! GET YO HEAD STRAIGHT
*HILARY APPEARS!*
hilary: YO GUYS! DUCK AND COVA ! ITZ AN EARTHQUAKE!
Jessica: a whojamawhataaaaa??
sam: told you it was a tornado! Ohm boy I am so scared!! !11!1!11 eeehhh
Jessica: Yeah! Not even the real slim shady can save us now!!!
hilary: NO dawgs, not a tornado! AN EARTHQUAKE!!!
sam: A WHAAAZZ???
hilary*serious mode*: Well, the earth’s plates float on top of the asthenosphere, which is the hot layer under the lithosphere. As it is forced to shift, the plates may move and interact with each other…
Jessica: like talkin??? Beat boxin? ROKKIN? Chilaxin wit da dawgs?
hilary: *serious mode still* no…..not that kind of interaction. After they interact (like, collide), energy is released, and large sections of earth’s crust can fracture!!!
Sam: JUZZ LIKE MAH ARM!!!!
Jessica: so where can these……earthquakes occur?
hilary: anywhere! They are most common along the fault lines, however. Fault lines are where pieces of the earth’s crust meet.
Jessica: BOY HOWDY!! DAT SURE IS WACCK
sam: So….HOW DO U MEASUA AN…>EARFQUAKE??
hilary: Use the richter scale, yo !!! It measure the magnitude, the intensity of the earthquake!!!
sam: magno whaaaa?
hilary: Let me rephrase that for you…BREAK IT DOWN!!!
*goes into rap*
hilary: yo yo yo you got yo earthquake
Jessica: it makes the earth shake?
hilary: it makes it really really really hard to easy bake a cake!!! You got the richta scale!!!
sam: Does it eva fail?
hilary: No way dawg, this is reliable. Undeniable! Without it we’d be dead from the earth shakin earth quaking!
Jessica: could we find it in a club with a bottle full of bud?
hilary: naahhh it’s a scale yo, it cant drink!!!
sam: so tell us more!
hilary: if its 3.5 on the scale o’ less, yo be ok aiight? But if it. 3.5 to 5.4, ya betta shut yo door! If its 5.5 to 6 yo building may end up bein nuffin but sticks!!! And it if 6.1-6.9
(word dawg)
you aint gonna be just fine!! Itll cause damage to you and yo grams up in the old folks hizzouse!! Word to yo motha!!!
sam: what happens if its 7-7.9?
hilary: That’s a big earthquake yo! Causes bigga waves than the 1980s!!!
Jessica: Is there anything higher than dat?
hilary: Betta not deny errr, those are REALLY BIG! They cause lots of damage and cause some damage ova 100z of k’s. get mah drift?|
sam+ Jessica: OH HECKZ YEAH!
*earthquake stops*
hilary: So guys, do you understand earthquakes now?
Jessica: I have to ask a question…
hilary: WHAA
Jessica: ok…so at the earth’s ….plate boundaries, what do the plates do? O been wonderin
sam: that’s simple foo!!!
Jessica: shutt upppzzz
hilary: stop fighting!!! Don’t be hatin! The plates can converge , or collide. They hit each other like pro wrestle in the wwf!! Diverge (or move away from each otha), like they don’t wanna be brothaz anymore! or shear! Where they grind past each other!!Kinda like when you z all got in the gang fight and you couldn’t walk past each otha cause there were so many homez fightin!
*earth starts shaking again*
sam: holy shizzz what is diz??
Jessica: mannn id ont know!!!
Hilary: this is an after shock!!! They are smaller , less powerful earthquakes that can sometimes follow a larger one!! Kinda like G-Unit after fiddy cent!!
sam: wowwwwzzzaa
hilary: that’s right! You dig?
Jessica: I dig!
sam: ME TOO!!!
hilary: Aiight yo! I’ll be seein you in da club!!! Anytime an earthquake is near, ill be wit you in spirit, don’t show no fear!!!
Jessica: Come on man, lets show tha brotha some love!
sam+Jessica: *packs it*