Earthquake Topics — Basics
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- 100% Chance of an Earthquake — Earthquake statistics. (USGS)
- About Earthquakes — descriptions and graphics of earthquakes and their effects (Univ. of Nevada, Reno)
- Animation of P, S & Surface Waves — seismic wave animations (San Diego State Univ.)
- Animations for Earthquake Terms and Concepts — Flash animations illustrating basic earthquake terms and concepts. (USGS)
- Animations of Seismology Fundamentals — animations illustrating the fundamentals of earthquakes and seismology (Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS))
- Coloring Pages to Print — Earthquake-related coloring pages to print out and color (USGS)
- Cool Earthquake Facts — fascinating earthquake facts (USGS)
- Demonstrations of Geophysical Principles Applicable to the Properties and Processes of the Earth's Interior — demonstrations with photos and graphics (SUNY Binghamton)
- Designing Structures to Perform Well During an Earthquake — discussion and lesson plans (Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER))
- 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. (TASA Graphic Arts)
- Discover Our Earth — Portal for teachers and students for learn the basics about earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, topography, and sea level changes. (USGS & DLESE)
- Earth Puzzle — part of a larger publication (Scripps)
- Earth Science Course Notes & Graphics — Professor Steve Dutch's excellent online resources for earth sciences with great images for teaching; all the goodies are behind the "Notes" links (Univ. of Wisconsin)
- Earth Science Education Activities — a wealth of excellent hands-on activities for teaching about earthquakes, volcanoes, seismic waves, plate tectonics, earth structure, seismic waves, convection, seismometers and more! (Purdue Univ.)
- Earth Science Explorer — virtual museum (NASA)
- Earth Science Lessons — lessons developed by an elementary school teacher, but good for all ages, slide-style with color diagrams and photographs (Oregon State University)
- Earth Sciences Lesson Plans — not really earthquakes, but great lesson plans for K-12 (NESEN - Lessons for Earth Systems Education)
- Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics — overview with good graphics and lots of details (National Science Teachers Association (NSTA))
- Earth's Layers, The — slide-show type presentation (Oregon State University)
- Earthquake 101 Powerpoint Slideshow Download — a complete PowerPoint show for the basics (USGS)
- Earthquake 101 Powerpoint Slideshow online — preview of the complete PowerPoint show for the basics (USGS)
- Earthquake ABC: A Child's View of Earthquake Facts and Feelings — by kids for kids, with a special section for parents and teachers (USGS)
- Earthquake Education Services — lesson plans, information on Wasatch Front (Univ. of Utah)
- Earthquake Effects in Kobe, Japan — discussion and lots of photos and images of the effects of the Kobe, Japan earthquake (Univ. of Nevada, Reno)
- Earthquake Model — earthquake recurrence, size, and prediction demonstration instructions, brick & sandpaper model (USGS)
- Earthquake Monitoring — explore the history behind earthquake monitoring; list of additional readings and links also included (USGS)
- Earthquake Practice Quiz — online quiz (Florida Intl. Univ.)
- Earthquake Quartet #1 — USGS seismologist Andrew Michael explores both music and audio playbacks of the earth shaking and finds new ways to learn about the earth, earthquakes, musical instruments and music. (USGS)
- Earthquake Quiz — Online quiz (UC Santa Barbara)
- Earthquake Quiz — online quiz (Univ. of Houston)
- Earthquake Quiz (PDF) — PDF file to print (Teacher Vision)
- Earthquake Science Explained — A series of short articles for students, teachers, and parents originally published as weekly features in The San Francisco Chronicle. This USGS General Information Product presents some of the new understanding gained and scientific advances made in the century since the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. (USGS)
- Earthquake Unit — six challenges with lesson plans, online activities, and links to resources about the basics, earthquake probabilities, preparedness, earthquakes in the past, and seismic waves (San Francisco USD)
- Earthquakes — general overview of earthquakes, online USGS general interest publication (USGS)
- Earthquakes — slide-show type presentation (Tech Museum of Innovation)
- Earthquakes by Bruce A. Bolt Online Companion — links related to subjects covered in book (W.H. Freeman & Co.)
- Earthquakes: The Rolling Earth — slide-show type presentation (Oregon State University)
- Echando Raices en Tierra de Terremotos — Este manual provee información sobre por qué nos deben preocupar los terremotos en el Sur de California, qué debemos hacer para estar seguros y reducir el daño, y también qué debemos saber de lo básico sobre terremotos. (USGS & many other organizations)
- Educational Activities — Origami, building models, historical seismologists (New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Resources)
- EQ Myths (PDF) — investigate EQ myths; what myths exist and why do people believe them (USGS)
- Forces of Nature — companion to the "Forces of Nature" IMAX movie about Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Hurricanes and Tornadoes; interactive learn plus lesson plans for the classroom (National Geographic)
- Forces of Nature -- Teacher Study Guides — These study guides are mean to complement the giant_screen film "Forces of Nature" (Destination Cinema)
- Geological Online Exhibits — geologic time scale, plate tectonics animation, and more! (UC Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley)
- Geology Central — links to resources for Geology and Geophysics (Geology Central)
- Geology Lesson Plans — includes all earth sciences (AskERIC)
- geologylink — geology in the news, links to resources, virtual field trips, virtual classroom (Houghton Mifflin Company College Division)
- Geophysics Course Resources on the Internet — list of online course resources for undergraduate and graduate levels (Univ. of Houston)
- Great Quakes — description, graphics and animations about seismic waves, locations of earthquakes, effects, and earthquake engineering (Discovery Online)
- GSA Free Teacher Resources — A good resource for educators that includes lesson plans, info on state standards, awards, and reading suggestions (Geological Society of America)
- How Earthquakes Work — description of the basics (How Stuff Works)
- How Plates Move — slide-show type presentation (Oregon State University)
- How to Build a Model Illustrating Sea-Floor Spreading and Subduction — USGS Open File Report 99-132 (online) This report describes how to build a model of the outer 300 km (180 miles) of the Earth that can be used to develop a better understanding of the principal features of plate tectonics, including sea-floor spreading, the pattern of magnetic stripes frozen into the sea floor, transform faulting, thrust faulting, subduction, and volcanism. (USGS)
- Inside Geology - Chapter 10: Earthquakes — companion webpages to the book chapter; links to numerous topical class lectures, web sites, references, news items, organizations, and glossaries (Houghton Mifflin Company College Division)
- Inside Geology - Chapter 11: Geophysical Properties of Planet Earth — companion webpages to the book chapter; links to numerous topical class lectures, web sites, references, news items, organizations, and glossaries (Houghton Mifflin Company College Division)
- Investigating Earthquakes Through Regional Seismicity — excellent graphics, animations and activities (Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) & USGS)
- John Lahr's Earthquake website — Collection of the author's own activities and publications, and links to other useful tidbits. Especially useful if you have your own seismometer, or want to build one. (USGS Emeritus)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth — Created by 100 5th grade students (John F. Pattie Elementary)
- Kid Zone — Games, puzzles (Assoc. of Bay Area Govts.(ABAG))
- Kid's Earthquake Questions & Answers — kids' questions answered by scientists (Dromore National School, Republic of Ireland & USGS)
- Life Along the Faultline — lots of resources, information, activities and graphics concerning earthquakes in California (Exploratorium)
- Living in Earthquake Country: A Teaching Box — 7 lessons with the goal of teaching students about how and why earthquakes cause damage. Explores 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. (DLESE)
- Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker — Push your mouse around to move continents and change the landscape (PBS)
- On the Move: Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics — description of plate tectonic history and mechanics (NASA)
- One-page Information Sheets on Earthquake Topics — one-page information sheets about various earthquake topics (Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS))
- Online Coloring Pages — Interactively color earthquake-related pictures (USGS)
- Online Wordsearch Puzzles — Interactive wordsearch puzzles with earthquake-related words (USGS)
- Pangea to Present — slide-show type presentation (Oregon State University)
- Plate Tectonics Activities — Games, quiz (Quia)
- Plate Tectonics Quiz — quiz (Enchanted Learning)
- Plate Tectonics Quiz — quiz (SchoolScience.co.uk)
- Potato Topo (PDF) — use a potato to make a 3-D 'topo map' and understand how it can be represented on a 1-D map, gain experience of maps and scales (USGS)
- Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - NCA edition — Earthquakes and preparedeness in northern California (USGS & many other organizations)
- Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - SCA edition — Earthquakes and preparedeness in southern California (USGS & Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC))
- Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - Utah edition — Earthquakes and prepardeness in Utah (Utah Seismic Safety Commission)
- Rock'n on Shakey Ground (4MB PDF) — The basics of earthquake science written especially for the elementary school level. (USGS & Green Frog News)
- Rumble Tumble — an online book with pictures, created by a kid (FEMA)
- San Andreas Fault, The — overview of the San Andreas Fault, online USGS general interest publication (USGS)
- Savage Earth, The — slick presentation of the earthquake basics with great graphics and animations (PBS)
- Science Explained, The — links to popular science articles about earthquake research (USGS)
- Science Fair Project Ideas — specific projects with directions and ideas (USGS)
- Science of Earthquakes, The — links to various webpages with basic earthquake science info (USGS)
- Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure, An Introduction to — online companion to the textbook by Seth Stein and Michael Wysession with electronic versions of all images and access to homework problems and solutions; also includes errata (Blackwell Publishing)
- Shake, Rattle, and Slide — Lessons, activities, and slide shows about earthquakes, volcanoes, and glaciers. (University of Illinois Extension)
- Southern California Integrated GPS Network Education Module — excellent graphics, animations and activities (USGS & Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC))
- The Richter Scale — An interactive demonstration of calculating the magnitude of an earthquake based on amplitude and S and P wave locations (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
- Theory of the Earth — online book on the science of earthquakes (Caltech)
- This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics — excellent comprehensive overview of plate tectonics with excellent graphics, online USGS general interest publication (USGS)
- Toilet Paper Geologic Time Scale (PDF) — use toilet paper to understand the enormous extent of geologic time compared to recent time; timeline included (USGS)
- Understanding Earthquakes — quiz, descriptions and animations (UC Santa Barbara)
- Understanding Quakes — description, photos, and graphics of earthquake basics and effects of earthquakes in Turkey (The Why Files)
- UPSeis Seismology Questions Answered — magnitudes, research, locations, seismic waves, and all the basics explained, as well as preparedness and hazards (UPSeis, Univ. of Michigan)
- USGS and Science Education, The — webpages, links, booklets, maps, fact sheets, classroom lessons, etc. online and to order, mostly free (USGS)
- USGS General Interest Publications — online and to order on a variety of subjects (USGS)
- USGS Maps Booklet — online USGS general interest publication (USGS)
- UTIG : GK-12 Program — lesson plans for earthquakes, tsunamis, plate tectonics, and more (Univ. of Texas, Austin)
- Volcano World's Activities for Plate Tectonics — slide-style coverage of the basics (Oregon State University)
