Earthquake Topics - Damage from Earthquakes

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Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
An online exhibit of information and images from the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Carleton College/NAGT materials
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Visualizations
This collection presents links to images, films, panoramas and animations about the earthquake and fire.
USGS
Can It Happen Here?
Could a large damaging tsunami happen in the United States?
USGS
Damaging Earthquakes in the United States (1750 - 1996)
Locations of damaging earthquakes in the United States
TASA Graphic Arts
Digital Online Geology - Earthquakes
Online version of "Earthquakes" by Edward
J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, and Dennis Tasa. This informative chapter about earthquakes has images, text, quizzes, and narrated animations explaining what happens when earthquakes occur.
USGS
Earthquake 101 Powerpoint Slideshow Download
a complete PowerPoint show for the basics
Tech Museum of Innovation
Earthquakes
slide-show type presentation
USGS
Earthquakes with 1,000 or More Deaths since 1900
List of earthquakes with 1,000 or more deaths since 1900.
USGS
Earthquakes, MegaQuakes, and the Movies
discussion about facts versus fantasies
DLESE
Living in Earthquake Country-Teaching Box
Explores how and why earthquakes cause damage, seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides, liquefaction, or structural failure.
The Why Files
Understanding Quakes
description, photos, and graphics of earthquake basics and effects of earthquakes in Turkey

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