Big Java & Java Concepts example project "quake"

You can use this project as follows:

 - invoke the main method of the driver class EarthquakeTester by right-clicking 
 on the class representation and selecting the main method.
 - interactively create Earthquake objects of differing degrees of severity
 - use values that should cause all of the different descriptions to be used.   
 - call the getDescription method of each object 

This project illustrates concepts covered in "Big Java" & "Java Concepts", Chapter 6 
"Decisions".
  
 - to be able to implement decisions using if statements 
 - to understand how to group statements into blocks 
 - to learn how to compare integers, floating-point numbers, strings, and objects 
 - to recognize the correct ordering of decisions in multiple branches 
 - to program conditions using Boolean operators and variables