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Organization	Topics	Content Types	Levels
100% Chance of an Earthquake — Earthquake statistics.
USGS	Statistics Prediction Basics	Info	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
A Comparison of Two Bay Area Earthquakes: 1989 v. 1906 — Investigate the shaking intensity and magnitude of these two earthquakes.
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Intensity Lessons online Magnitudes San Andreas Fault	Graphics Lesson Plans	High School
Animations for Earthquake Terms and Concepts — Flash animations illustrating basic earthquake terms and concepts.
USGS	Education resources Basics		College Elementary school General Audience High School Middle School
Become an Earthquake Scientist — What does a geophysicist do? What do you need to study in school to become a geophysicist? What are the opportunities?
USGS	Careers	Info	Middle School High School College
Big Rocks, Little Rocks (PDF) — use cookies to demonstrate erosion and its effects
USGS	Earth structure	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Big Squeeze, The (PDF) — use crayon shavings to show how rocks are formed from other rocks, heat, and pressure
USGS	Earth structure	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Bigger Faults Make Bigger EQ's — three different rope lengths are used to demonstrate how a fault ruptures in an EQ and why bigger faults make bigger EQ's
USGS	Magnitudes Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc.	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Can It Happen Here? — Could a large damaging tsunami happen in the United States?
USGS	Tsunamis Societal Effects Preparedness & Response Prediction Hazards Effects, Earthquake Deaths from Earthquakes Damage from Earthquakes	Info	College General Audience High School Middle School
Can We Predict Earthquakes? PodCast — Scientist Mike Blanpied discusses the science of earthquake prediction.
USGS	Prediction	Info	General Audience
Casualty (Fatality) Totals, A Note About — One-pager explaining why the numbers vary on different list.
USGS	Deaths from Earthquakes Societal Effects Statistics	Info	General Audience
Central & Eastern US Fact Sheets, See also — 2-page information sheets for a general audience
USGS	New Madrid Seismic Zone	Info	General Audience
Coastal and Marine Geology Program — All 35 coastal States and the island territories experience coastal erosion. Balancing the competing needs of citizens, government, industry, and the environment.
USGS	Societal Effects Tsunamis	Graphics Info	General Audience
Coloring Pages to Print — Earthquake-related coloring pages to print out and color
USGS	Basics	Fun & Games Graphics Interactive	Elementary school
Cool Earthquake Facts — fascinating earthquake facts
USGS	Basics Earthquake facts	Info	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Damaging Earthquakes in the United States (1750 - 1996) — Locations of damaging earthquakes in the United States
USGS	Damage from Earthquakes	Info	General Audience
Deaths from Earthquakes in the United States — Deaths from earhquakes in the United States.
USGS	Deaths from Earthquakes	Info	General Audience
Determining Danger (PDF) — identify potential hazards in your immediate environment and take action to increase safety
USGS	Hazards Preparedness & Response Societal Effects	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Determining the Depth of an Earthquake — brief discussion on depths of earthquakes
USGS	Locating Earthquakes Locations	Info	Middle School High School General Audience College
Early History of Seismometry (to 1900), The — history of various instruments throughout the history of seismology
USGS	History-Earthquakes, Seismology	Info Graphics	High School General Audience College
Earth Egg (PDF) — use eggs to represent the Earth plates, discussions about remote shearing, plate tectonics, and earth structure
USGS	Earth structure Plate tectonics	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Earth's Crust, The — how thick is the Earth's crust?
USGS	Maps Earth structure	Graphics	General Audience College
Earth's Interior Minerals — how can EQ's tell us what is inside the earth?
USGS	Geology Earth structure	Lesson Plans	Middle School Elementary school
Earthquake 101 Powerpoint Slideshow Download — a complete PowerPoint show for the basics
USGS	Photos, Earthquake Effects, Earthquake Earth structure Damage from Earthquakes Basics Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Historic Earthquakes History-Earthquakes, Seismology Locating Earthquakes Maps Plate tectonics Seismic waves	Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
Earthquake 101 Powerpoint Slideshow online — preview of the complete PowerPoint show for the basics
USGS	Basics Earth structure Effects, Earthquake Earthquake facts Photos, Earthquake Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Locating Earthquakes Plate tectonics Seismic waves	Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
Earthquake ABC: A Child's View of Earthquake Facts and Feelings — by kids for kids, with a special section for parents and teachers
USGS	Basics	Info Graphics	Elementary school
Earthquake Booms, Seneca Guns, and Other Sounds — An examination of strange and unexplained sounds that are sometimes heard accompanying earthquakes.
USGS	Effects, Earthquake	Info	College General Audience High School
Earthquake Density Maps for the United States — Maps of the average number of Earthquakes per year, magnitude 5 and Greater, all depths, for the United States.
USGS	Seismicity	Info	General Audience
Earthquake Density Maps for the World — Maps of average number of earthquake per year, magnitude 5.0 and greater, for the World. Maps are grouped by depth intervals.
USGS	Statistics Seismicity Maps Magnitudes	Graphics Info	General Audience
Earthquake Facts & Earthquake Fantasy — Companion to "Earthquakes, Megaquakes, and the Movies"
USGS	Societal Effects Effects, Earthquake Myths Earthquake facts	Info Graphics	General Audience High School Middle School
Earthquake Hazards on the Island of Hawaii — summary of earthquake hazards in Hawaii
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Photos, Earthquake Historic Earthquakes History-Earthquakes, Seismology	Info	Middle School High School General Audience
Earthquake Model — earthquake recurrence, size, and prediction demonstration instructions, brick & sandpaper model
USGS	Basics Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Prediction	Info Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
Earthquake Monitoring — explore the history behind earthquake monitoring; list of additional readings and links also included
USGS	Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring History-Earthquakes, Seismology Basics	Info	Middle School High School
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	Basics Education resources Forces People Seismic waves	Fun & Games	General Audience
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	Basics Effects, Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Hazards Paleoseismology San Andreas Fault Seismic waves Trenching	Info	Middle School High School Elementary school General Audience
Earthquake Statistics — Frequency of different magnitude earthquakes, number of earthquakes per year, etc.
USGS	Statistics Earthquake facts	Info	Elementary school College General Audience High School Middle School
Earthquakes — general overview of earthquakes, online USGS general interest publication
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Basics History-Earthquakes, Seismology Prediction Seismicity	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics — Explains the theory of earthquakes and plate tectonics.
USGS	Plate tectonics	Info	General Audience
Earthquakes in the United States, Magnitude 7 and Greater — List of earthquakes, by state, magnitude 7.0 and greater.
USGS	Historic Earthquakes Seismicity	Info	General Audience
Earthquakes with 1,000 or More Deaths since 1900 — List of earthquakes with 1,000 or more deaths since 1900.
USGS	Deaths from Earthquakes Damage from Earthquakes	Info	General Audience
Earthquakes, MegaQuakes, and the Movies — discussion about facts versus fantasies
USGS	Societal Effects Shaking San Andreas Fault Prediction Plate tectonics Myths Magnitudes Forces Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Earthquake facts Effects, Earthquake Damage from Earthquakes	Info	Middle School High School General Audience
EQ Fear (PDF) — make a list of common fears and address each one
USGS	Education resources Lessons online Preparedness & Response	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
EQ Kit Treasure Hunt (PDF) — hide EQ kit items around classroom or school and have a treasure hunt
USGS	Education resources Lessons online Preparedness & Response	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
EQ Myths (PDF) — investigate EQ myths; what myths exist and why do people believe them
USGS	Education resources Basics Lessons online Myths	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
EQ Plan (PDF) — discuss a plan for what to do if there is an EQ; especially good for schools in EQ-prone areas
USGS	Education resources Lessons online Preparedness & Response	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
EQs on the Surface (PDF) — use topo maps, seismicity maps, and fault maps to understand the connection between the surface features, locations of EQs and mapped faults
USGS	Lessons online Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Maps Seismicity	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Fault Features (PDF) — a pan, dirt and some fabric create a model to demonstrate surface features of faults, use the Wallace Creek trail guide to see real fault features, or take a field trip
USGS	Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Field trips - virtual, real Lessons online	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Flinn-Engdahl Regions — description of regions used to identify locations of earthquakes world-wide
USGS	Locations Maps	Info	High School General Audience College
Groundwater Effects from Earthquakes — A description of the potential effects of earthquakes on groundwater and wells.
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Societal Effects	Info	General Audience
Hazards 101, Earthquake — The basics of how the USGS National Earthquake Hazard Maps are made.
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Forces Hazards Shaking	Info	General Audience College
High Quality Earthquake Animations — Simulations of earthquake ruptures that were run on the supercomputers at Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Modeling Seismic waves Shaking	Graphics	High School General Audience College
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	Plate tectonics Lessons online Education resources Basics	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience
Human Wave (PDF) — learn about the motions of P & S waves with a fun participating exercise
USGS	Seismic waves Lessons online Education resources	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School Elementary school
Isoseismal Maps (PDF) — learn the difference between intensity and magnitude and gain experience with contouring on maps
USGS	Intensity Education resources Lessons online Magnitudes	Lesson Plans	Elementary school Middle School
Large Plate Puzzle (PDF) — cut a large world map into puzzle pieces along plate boundaries, students discuss individually land then for the whole map after the class puts pieces together; simple but powerful, discussion Q/A included
USGS	Plate tectonics Lessons online Education resources	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School Elementary school
Largest and Deadliest Earthquakes by Year, 1990 - 2005 — List of the largest and deadliest earthquakes, by year, 1990 -2005.
USGS	Historic Earthquakes Deaths from Earthquakes Seismicity	Info	General Audience
Largest Earthquakes by State — List and map of the largest earthquake in each State
USGS	Historic Earthquakes	Info	General Audience
Largest Earthquakes in the United States — Lists and maps of the largest earthquakes in the United States.
USGS	Historic Earthquakes	Info	General Audience
Largest Earthquakes in the World Since 1900 — List and map of the largest earthquakes in the world.
USGS	Historic Earthquakes	Info	General Audience
Late Night Musings of an Earthquake Seismologist — USGS Scientist Paul A. Reasenberg candidly discusses earthquake preparedness.
USGS	Societal Effects	Info	General Audience
Listening to Earthquakes — music and earthquakes have something in common!
USGS	Seismic waves	Interactive	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Magnitude / Intensity Comparison — Explains the difference between magnitude and intensity.
USGS	Magnitudes Intensity	Info	General Audience
Magnitude 7 and Greater Earthquakes This Year — List and map of magnitude 7 and greater earthquakes this year. List and map of deaths from earthquakes this year.
USGS	Magnitudes Deaths from Earthquakes Statistics	Info	General Audience
Magnitude 8 and Greater Earthquakes Since 1990 — List of magnitude 8 and greater earthquakes since 1990.
USGS	Magnitudes Statistics	Info	General Audience
Magnitude versus Intensity Lesson (PDF) — classroom lesson to teach the difference between earthquake magnitude and earthquake intensities
USGS	Intensity Education resources Lessons online Magnitudes	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School High School
Mantle Motions (PDF) — students act out various mantle motions in a game of fast thinking
USGS	Earth structure Education resources Lessons online	Lesson Plans	Elementary school Middle School
Measuring the Size of an Earthquake — How the size of an earthquake is measured.
USGS	Magnitudes Locating Earthquakes Intensity	Info	General Audience
Men & Women of Seismology, The — biographies and photos of famous seismologists
USGS	History-Earthquakes, Seismology Careers People	Info	Middle School High School General Audience College
Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, The — A description of the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale.
USGS	Intensity	Info	General Audience
Most Destructive Known Earthquakes on Record in the World — Earthquakes with 50,000 or More Deaths
USGS	Deaths from Earthquakes	Info	General Audience
New Madrid Earthquakes 1811 - 1812 — Accounts of the large earthquakes that occurred in the New Madrid area in 1811 - 1812.
USGS	New Madrid Seismic Zone	Info	General Audience
Number of Magnitude 7.0 and Greater Earthquakes per Year, Since 1900 — List of the number of magnitude 7.0 and greater earthquakes per year, since 1900.
USGS	Magnitudes Statistics	Info	General Audience
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
PBJ Fault (PDF) — demonstrate the different types of faults with a PBJ sandwich, and then eat it double-decker
USGS	Plate tectonics Lessons online Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
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	Maps Lessons online Education resources Basics	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Predicting Earthquakes — short overview
USGS	Prediction	Info	General Audience College High School
Richter Magnitude Scale, The — Description of the Richter magnitude scale.
USGS	Magnitudes	Info	General Audience
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
San Andreas Fault, The — overview of the San Andreas Fault, online USGS general interest publication
USGS	Basics Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Historic Earthquakes History-Earthquakes, Seismology San Andreas Fault	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
Schoolyard Geology — Online lesson plans with photos and images. Excellent geologic activities you can do anywhere! Education standards info included.
USGS	Geology Maps Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes	Lesson Plans	Elementary school Middle School
Science Explained, The — links to popular science articles about earthquake research
USGS	Basics Crustal deformation Effects, Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Education resources Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Geology Hazards Historic Earthquakes History-Earthquakes, Seismology Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Locations Magnitudes Modeling Plate tectonics Prediction Rock mechanics Seismicity Statistics	Info	General Audience College
Science Fair Project Ideas — specific projects with directions and ideas
USGS	Education resources Basics	Info Graphics	Middle School High School Elementary school
Science of Earthquakes, The — links to various webpages with basic earthquake science info
USGS	Basics	Info	Middle School High School Elementary school College
Sea-Floor Spreading and Subduction, How to Build a Model Illustrating — Three-dimensional, cut-and-paste paper model illustrating sea-floor spreading and subduction.
USGS	Modeling Geology Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources Earth structure Plate tectonics	Lesson Plans	Middle School
Seismic Seiches — Description and history of seismic seiches.
USGS	Seismic Seiches	Info	General Audience
Seismicity of the United States — Seismicity maps of the United States.
USGS	Seismicity Maps Hazards	Graphics Info	General Audience
Seismographs: Keeping Track of Earthquakes — brief description on how seismographs work to locate earthquakes
USGS	Seismic waves Networks Locating Earthquakes Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
Severity of an Earthquake, The — measuring earthquakes, online USGS general interest publication
USGS	Magnitudes Intensity Hazards	Graphics Info	Middle School High School General Audience College
Table-Top Earthquakes — USGS Open-File Report 98-767 (online)
USGS	Education resources Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc.	Lesson Plans	High School College
Teacher's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area Geophysics Maps — USGS Open File Report 95-479 (online)
USGS	San Andreas Fault Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources Seismicity	Lesson Plans	High School
The Next Big Quake in the Bay Area — Newspaper article about the next big earthquake in the Bay area
USGS	Preparedness & Response	Info	General Audience
The Parkfield Experiment — attempting to predict a Parkfield, CA earthquake
USGS	Prediction Parkfield	Info Graphics	High School General Audience College
This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics — excellent comprehensive overview of plate tectonics with excellent graphics, online USGS general interest publication
USGS	Basics History-Earthquakes, Seismology Plate tectonics	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
This Dynamic Planet — World Map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Impact Craters, and Plate Tectonics
USGS	Plate tectonics	Info	General Audience
Today in Earthquake History — what happened today in earthquake history
USGS	History-Earthquakes, Seismology Historic Earthquakes Earthquake facts	Info	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Toilet Paper Geologic Time Scale (PDF) — use toilet paper to understand the enormous extent of geologic time compared to recent time; timeline included
USGS	Time Information Lessons online Education resources Basics	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Top Earthquake States — Lists the states with the most earthquakes. The top 10 states are listed, but each state is ranked.
USGS	Seismicity	Info	General Audience
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 Websites — compilation of websites that provide current tsunami information
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Tsunami Websites — List of websites that provide current tsunami information.
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Understanding Earthquakes Makes for Messy Science — Earthquake processes typically occur tens of miles below the Earth's surface and over geologic time, away from direct observation. Earthquake science, in particular, is often subject to interpretation and bias.
USGS	Preparedness & Response	Info	General Audience
USGS and Science Education, The — webpages, links, booklets, maps, fact sheets, classroom lessons, etc. online and to order, mostly free
USGS	Basics Careers Education resources Lessons online	Lesson Plans Info	Middle School High School Elementary school College
USGS General Interest Publications — online and to order on a variety of subjects
USGS	Basics	Info	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
USGS Maps Booklet — online USGS general interest publication
USGS	Basics Maps	Info Graphics	Middle School High School College
UTC - Coordinated Universal Time — Definition of UTC.
USGS	Time Information	Info	General Audience
Where are the Fault Lines in the United States East of the Rocky Mountains? — Information on where the fault lines are in states east of the Rocky Mountains.
USGS	Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Hazards Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc.	Info	General Audience
Who Dunit? and the Law of Superposition (PDF) — solve a crime, and then use those same skills to understand the Law of Superposition (older layers of the earth on bottom) with a fun WhoDunit? investigation and then use your skills to solve a geological mystery
USGS	Trenching Paleoseismology Lessons online Geology Education resources Earth structure	Lesson Plans Graphics	Elementary school
World Plate Boundaries Animation — World plate boundaries animation.
USGS	Plate tectonics	Info Graphics	General Audience
World Seismicity Maps — World seismicity maps.
USGS	Seismicity Maps	Info	General Audience