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Animation of P, S & Surface Waves — seismic wave animations
San Diego State Univ.	Seismic waves Locating Earthquakes Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Basics	Interactive Info	High School General Audience
Coloring Pages to Print — Earthquake-related coloring pages to print out and color
USGS	Basics	Graphics Interactive	Elementary school
Designing Structures to Perform Well During an Earthquake — discussion and lesson plans
Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)	Lessons online Education resources Engineering, Earthquake Basics	Lesson Plans Interactive Info	High School College
Discover Our Earth — Portal for teachers and students for learn the basics about earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, topography, and sea level changes.
USGS & DLESE	Plate tectonics Lessons online Basics	Lesson Plans Interactive Graphics	High School College
Downloadable Freeware — (Mac only) plate tectonic animations, orogeny, Our Dynamic Planet, Origins of Life
UC Santa Barbara	Plate tectonics	Interactive Graphics Lesson Plans	Middle School High School General Audience College
Earthquake Practice Quiz — online quiz
Florida Intl. Univ.	Basics Education resources Lessons online	Interactive	Middle School High School
Earthquake Quiz — Online quiz
UC Santa Barbara	Education resources Basics	Interactive Fun & Games	Middle School High School
Earthquake Quiz — online quiz
Univ. of Houston	Basics Education resources	Info Interactive	Middle School High School
Education & Outreach Software — Downloadable software to manipulate seismograms and for visualization.
Binghamton Univ Geological Sciences	Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Locating Earthquakes Education resources Seismic waves	Interactive	High School College
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	Lessons online Education resources Books Basics	Lesson Plans Interactive Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Geophysics Course Resources on the Internet — list of online course resources for undergraduate and graduate levels
Univ. of Houston	Basics Geology	Lesson Plans Interactive Info	College
Global Earthquake Explorer, The — easy tool for non-seismologists to retrieve, display and analyze seismic data
Univ. of South Carolina, IRIS	Magnitudes Locations Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Seismic waves	Interactive Graphics	High School College
Great Quakes — description, graphics and animations about seismic waves, locations of earthquakes, effects, and earthquake engineering
Discovery Online	Basics Engineering, Earthquake Hazards	Info Graphics Interactive	Middle School High School General Audience College
Investigating Earthquakes Through Regional Seismicity — excellent graphics, animations and activities
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) & USGS	Education resources Basics Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Lessons online Seismicity	Interactive Graphics Lesson Plans	General Audience College High School
Journey to the Center of the Earth — Created by 100 5th grade students
John F. Pattie Elementary	Basics Education resources Lessons online	Graphics Fun & Games Interactive Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Jules Verne Voyager and Jules Verne Voyager, Jr. — an interactive map tool that enables students and scientists to better understand the relationships between geophysical and geological processes, structures, and measurements with high-precision GPS data. These are Javascript based tools.
UNAVCO	Seismicity Plate tectonics Maps	Interactive Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Kid Zone — Games, puzzles
Assoc. of Bay Area Govts.(ABAG)	Basics Maps Preparedness & Response	Info Fun & Games Interactive	Middle School
Kid's Earthquake Questions & Answers — kids' questions answered by scientists
Dromore National School, Republic of Ireland & USGS	Basics	Interactive Info	Elementary school
Listening to Earthquakes — music and earthquakes have something in common!
USGS	Seismic waves	Interactive	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker — Push your mouse around to move continents and change the landscape
PBS	Basics History-Earthquakes, Seismology Plate tectonics	Interactive Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
NGDC - Natural Hazards Databases at NGDC — Data, images, kids quizzes, and maps from geologic hazards as well as slide shows available for order
National Geophysical Data Center	History-Earthquakes, Seismology Hazards Tsunamis	Interactive Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Online Coloring Pages — Interactively color earthquake-related pictures
USGS	Basics	Interactive Graphics Fun & Games	Elementary school
Online Wordsearch Puzzles — Interactive wordsearch puzzles with earthquake-related words
USGS	Basics	Fun & Games Interactive	Elementary school
PaleoMap Project — plate tectonics, earth history, climate history, lesson plans, software, and more
UT Arlington	Education resources History-Earthquakes, Seismology Maps Plate tectonics	Lesson Plans Interactive Graphics	College
Plate Tectonics Activities — Games, quiz
Quia	Basics Plate tectonics	Interactive Fun & Games	Elementary school
Plate Tectonics Quiz — quiz
Enchanted Learning	Basics	Interactive	Elementary school
Plate Tectonics Quiz — quiz
SchoolScience.co.uk	Basics	Interactive	Elementary school
Quake-Catcher Network — A collaborative initiative for developing the world's largest, low-cost strong-motion seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to internet-connected computers.
Stanford	Education resources Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Locating Earthquakes	Lesson Plans Interactive	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school
San Andreas Fault at Wallace Creek — Interactive, 360 degree panorama of the San Andreas Fault. Aerial photos of the fault taken from a kite.
USGS	Crustal deformation Effects, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Field trips - virtual, real Geology Historic Earthquakes Photos, Earthquake San Andreas Fault	Graphics Interactive	Elementary school General Audience High School Middle School
Seismic Waves — demonstration on different types of seismic waves
Aspire	Seismic waves	Graphics Interactive	Middle School High School
Seismic/Eruption — A free program (PC) you can download for the visualization of seismicity and volcanic activity in space and time
SUNY Binghamton	Seismicity	Graphics Interactive	High School College
Shake, Rattle, and Slide — Lessons, activities, and slide shows about earthquakes, volcanoes, and glaciers.
University of Illinois Extension	Basics Earthquake facts Effects, Earthquake Lessons online Plate tectonics	Graphics Info Interactive Lesson Plans	Middle School
Southern California Integrated GPS Network Education Module — excellent graphics, animations and activities
USGS & Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)	Plate tectonics GPS Education resources Basics	Lesson Plans Interactive Graphics	High School College
TASA Graphic Arts, Inc. — Plate Tectonics and How the Earth Works, The Theory of Plate Tectonics CDROMS, and more you can order
TASA Graphic Arts, Inc.	Education resources Lessons online Plate tectonics	Interactive Lesson Plans	High School College
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	Magnitudes Basics	Interactive	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
The Wave that Shook the World — Online companion to the NOVA broadcast with excellent animations, Q&anmp;A, images, and lesson plans for teachers.
PBS-NOVA	Books Effects, Earthquake Historic Earthquakes Lessons online Preparedness & Response Tsunamis	Graphics Info Interactive Lesson Plans	College General Audience High School
Travel Time Information & Calculator — Choose a seismic station location and a recent earthquake, and see how long it takes different types of seismic waves to travel from the epicenter to your station. Travel time curve and other phase information.
USGS	Locating Earthquakes Earth structure Seismic waves	Interactive	High School College
Try It Yourself Calculator — How much bigger is a magnitude 8.7 earthquake than a magnitude 5.8 earthquake?
USGS	Magnitudes	Info Fun & Games Interactive	College General Audience High School Middle School
Tsunami — Interactive presentation covering the science of tsunamis, preparedness, research, and historical tsunamis.
Woods Hole	Tsunamis	Graphics Interactive	High School General Audience Elementary school College Middle School
Understanding Earthquakes — quiz, descriptions and animations
UC Santa Barbara	History-Earthquakes, Seismology Basics	Interactive Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience
Virtual Earthquake & Other Labs — you're the scientist, and you have to locate the earthquake and determine the magnitude
Calstate LA	Seismic waves Magnitudes Locating Earthquakes Geology Education resources	Interactive Info Graphics	Middle School High School College
Virtual Earthquake Engineering — interactive demonstration of the effects of earthquake retrofitting
S. Illinois Univ.	Engineering, Earthquake	Interactive Graphics	High School College
Virtual Plate Reconstructions — exploration of plate tectonics
Univ. of Kentucky	Plate tectonics	Interactive Graphics	High School College
Xpeditions: Earthquakes & Volcanoes — Compare plate tectonic maps with population density maps, and analyze what these maps imply about population and seismic hazards.
National Geographic	Societal Effects Plate tectonics Maps Locations Lessons online	Lesson Plans Graphics Interactive	Middle School Elementary school