Teachable Moment from IRIS - Magnitude 7.2 New Caledonia
August 12, 2016 -- IRIS does an excellent job collecting and preparing resources we can use in our classrooms on recent, significant earthquakes. Check out their PowerPoint, visualizations and animations on a major earthquake that struck in the southwest Pacific Ocean 515.8 km (320.5 mi) southeast of Vanuatu. There were no reports of damage and no threat of a tsunami.
IRIS page: http://www.iris.edu/hq/retm/4204