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100% Chance of an Earthquake — Earthquake statistics.

USGS
  • Statistics
  • Prediction
  • Basics
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire — An interactive online exhibit of information, maps, images, and personal accounts from the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • San Andreas Fault
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Societal Effects
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInteractive
  • General Audience
  • College
  • High School
  • Middle School

2020-2021 Alaska Peninsual Earthquake Sequence — An ArcGIS geonarrative Storymap describing the three earthquakes along the subduction zone off the south coast of Alaska in 2020 and 2021.

USGS
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College
  • General Audience

55-Story Tall Building Before and After Earthquake Retrofit — Science for Everyone article

USGS
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Research
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

7 Steps to an Earthquake Resilient Business (PDF) — How to prepare your business for an earthquake

USGS, SCEC & many other organizations
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

A Possible Cause of Earthquakes in the Continental Interior — Plain-language summary of a 2018 research paper.

USGS
  • Forces
  • Hazards
  • Maps
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Research
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

A Resilient Home Starts Here — Answer questions on a quiz and learn about the seismic safety of your house, apartment building, or mobile home.

Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

ABAG Earthquake Maps and Information — Information and maps about liquefaction, faults, and landslides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Assoc. of Bay Area Govts. (ABAG)
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

About Earthquakes — basics about earthquakes

University of Washington
  • Basics
  • Seismic Waves
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Magnitudes
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Intensity
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience
  • High School

American Red Cross Earthquake Safety — Emergency response organization that provides disaster relief

American Red Cross
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Ancient Earth Globe — View planet Earth at any time in the past 750 million years. Rotate the globe and zoom in and out. Shows how the tectonic plates have moved over time.

The Dinosaur Database
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInteractive
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College
  • Elementary school
  • General Audience

Animals & Earthquake Prediction — Can animals predict earthquakes? Can they sense shaking that humans can't. What are the facts about animals and earthquakes?

USGS
  • Prediction
  • Myths
  • Earthquake Facts
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • General Audience

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

Auroras and Earthquakes: Strange Companions — A Science for Everyone article: In a win-win situation for both seismologists and space physicists, a cheap magnetometer at a seismic station can result in better seismic data for earthquakes and also more geomagnetic data in real time for monitoring space weather.

USGS
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • College
  • General Audience

Back to the Future on the San Andreas Fault — What does the science say? Where does the information come from? And what does it mean? Investigating past earthquakes to inform the future.

USGS
  • Geology
  • Hazards
  • Paleoseismology
  • Research
  • San Andreas Fault
  • Trenching
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Be a Hero: Kid's - ready.gov — Activities and materials aimed at making kids more aware of hazard preparedness

FEMA
  • Basics
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconFun & Games
  • iconInfo
  • iconInteractive
  • Elementary 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
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College

Birth of the Himalayas — brief description of the origin of the Himalaya Mountains

NOVA
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience
  • College

Brief History of Seismology to 1910 — Brief description of history of seismology

UC Santa Barbara
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

BSL Outreach — Wonderful diverse collection of videos and animations, as well as links to lesson plans and educational resources.

Berkeley Seismology Lab
  • Paleoseismology
  • Modeling
  • San Andreas Fault
  • Trenching
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Education Resources
  • Earth Structure
  • Books
  • Seismicity
  • Seismic Waves
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College

California Seismic Safety Commission — Focus on the California

California Seismic Safety Commission
  • Preparedness & Response

California Subduction Rocks — A photographic field trip to classic subduction-related rocks across northern California.

About Geology
  • Crustal Deformation
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Field Trips-Virtual & Real
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

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
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Catalog of Earthquake-Related Sounds — This collection of 21 earthquake-related sounds, prepared by Karl V. Steinbrugge, was originally published in BSSA vol. 64, no. 5 in 1974 and updated with eight additional sounds in 1985. You can listen to individual sounds below by clicking the play button in the audio player next to the recording number, or you can download a Zip file containing MP3 audio files of all the sounds. Most of recorded on the inside of different buildings but some are from outside. (Compiled by Karl V. Steinbrugge)

Seismological Society of America (SSA)
  • Societal Effects
  • Site Response
  • Shaking
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • iconInfo
  • iconInteractive
  • College
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school

CDC (Center for Disease Control) Emergency Preparedness & Response — Earthquakes and other emergencies

Center for Disease Control (CDC)
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium — Information about earthquakes in the central U.S.

Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC)
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Children, Stress, and Natural Disasters — Teachers guide to helping children deal with disasters

Univ of Illinois Extension
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school

Chile M7.0 January 12, 2010 and M8.8 February 27, 2010 Educational Slides — Details on the rupture of the two earthquakes, the shaking distribution, aftershock zone, estimated fatality numbers, and comparisons between the two.

USGS
  • Deaths from Earthquakes
  • Education Resources
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Intensity
  • Modeling
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Shaking
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Citizen Corps - Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) — Educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.

Citizen Corps
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Societal Effects
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Collection of 3D Geometries for Global Subduction Zones — A plain language article about subduction zone models and how they help us understand large earthquakes.

USGS
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Research
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Continents in Collision: Pangea Ultima — Short news piece with images

NASA
  • Crustal Deformation
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Continents on the Move — How do we know that continents are still moving?

PBS-Nova
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Cool Earthquake Facts — fascinating earthquake facts

USGS
  • Basics
  • Earthquake Facts
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College

Coquimbo, Chile M8.3 Educational Slides — Educational slides for the M8.3 Coquimbo, Chile M8.3 earthquake.

USGS
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Education Resources
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • College

Could the M7.1 Ridgecrest, CA Earthquake Sequence Trigger a Large Earthquake Nearby? — Two of the first questions that come to mind for anyone who just felt an earthquake are, ?Will there be another one?? and ?Will it be larger??.

USGS
  • Foreshocks
  • Triggering of Earthquakes
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Creep Evidence of Active Faulting — Information about creep on faults, and specifically the Hayward fault.

USGS
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Crustal Deformation
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • General Audience

Darfield, New Zealand Earthquake (09/03/2010) and its Aftershocks, Including the 02/21/2011 Christchurch Event Educational Slides — Educational slideset for the 09/03/2010 Darfield, New Zealand Earthquake and its Aftershocks, Including the 02/21/2011 Christchurch Event.

USGS
  • Education Resources
  • Intensity
  • Shaking
  • Societal Effects
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • College

Deciphering Nature's Seismograph: How Sediments Record Past Earthquakes and Inform Future Hazard Assessments — An ArcGIS geo-narrative storymap that describes how scientists can learn about the approximate time and magnitude of past earthquakes by looking at how they are "recorded" in the sediments under the surface of the Earth.

USGS
  • Maps
  • Earth Structure
  • Trenching
  • Paleoseismology
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience
  • College
  • Middle School
  • High School

Demonstrations of Geophysical Principles Applicable to the Properties and Processes of the Earth's Interior — demonstrations with photos and graphics

SUNY Binghamton
  • Education Resources
  • Earth Structure
  • Basics
  • Lessons Online
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • College

Determining the Depth of an Earthquake — brief discussion on depths of earthquakes

USGS
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Digging Into the Past on the Teton Fault — Follow the daily activities of a team of geologists and paleoseismologists as they dig a trench and collect data on the Teton Fault. (from a fieldwork blog September 15-21, 2017)

USGS
  • Paleoseismology
  • Geology
  • Trenching
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Digital Library for Earth Science Education — Searchable database of educational earth science resources for all grade levels.

DLESE
  • Basics
  • Education Resources
  • Lessons Online
  • iconInfo
  • iconLesson Plans
  • College
  • Elementary school
  • High School
  • Middle School

Disaster Preparedness for Pets — Steps and checklists to help care for pets during emergencies.

Humane Society of the United States
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

DisasterAssistance.gov — Access to disaster help and resources.

FEMA
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

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
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconInteractive
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • College

Downloadable Animations — Animation clips and other geo-educational items

UC Santa Barbara
  • Education Resources
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconGraphics
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Earth Like a Puzzle — Plate tectonics basics.

Scripps
  • Basics
  • Earth Structure
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconInfo
  • iconInteractive
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience

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
  • Basics
  • Earth Structure
  • Education Resources
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Geology
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Rock Mechanics
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • College

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.
  • Shaking
  • Seismic Waves
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Magnitudes
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Lessons Online
  • Intensity
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • Hazards
  • Geology
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Education Resources
  • Earth Structure
  • Basics
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • Elementary school
  • College

Earth Science Explorer — virtual museum

NASA
  • Basics
  • Earth Structure
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College

Earthquake — Details about what parts of the home are most vulnerable and how you can protect yourself (PDF)

Institute for Business and Home Safety
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Earthquake "Top 10" Lists — Deadly earthquakes, damaging EQs, EQ density maps, world and US statistics, historical EQ lists, largest EQ lists, last EQ in..., significant EQ catalogs, seismicity maps of the world and US.

USGS
  • Seismicity
  • Maps
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Statistics
  • Earthquake Facts
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Earthquake and Tsunami Preparedness — Focus on Seaside, OR, but useful for anyone within a tsunami risk zone.

City of Seaside, Oregon
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Earthquake Booms, Seneca Guns, and Other Sounds — An examination of strange and unexplained sounds that are sometimes heard accompanying earthquakes.

USGS
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Earthquake Country Alliance — Earthquake preparedness for California

Earthquake Country Alliance
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Earthquake Early Warning- Fine-Tuning for Best Alerts — The goal of an earthquake early warning (EEW) system is to provide an alert to people and automatic systems after an earthquake begins but before the shaking reaches their location. As the USGS and its partners are developing an EEW system, called ShakeAlert®, for the West Coast, the benefits, costs, capabilities, and limitations are being investigated. Two recent studies explored the timeliness and accuracy of alerts.

USGS
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Shaking
  • Societal Effects
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Earthquake Engineering Online Archive — The Earthquake Engineering Online Archive is a database of significant, publicly-funded research and development literature, photographs, data, and software in earthquake, structural, and geotechnical engineering. It includes full text for EERC, SEMM, and PEER reports published at UC Berkeley, the NISEE software library, and images from EQIIS.

NISEE, Univ. of Berkeley
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • iconGraphics
  • General Audience

Earthquake Facts & Earthquake Fantasy — Companion to "Earthquakes, Megaquakes, and the Movies"

USGS
  • Societal Effects
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Myths
  • Earthquake Facts
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Earthquake Footage — Videos from webcams, security cameras, and newsreels during the shaking from various earthquakes.

American Geophysical Union
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • Shaking
  • iconInteractive
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Earthquake Magnitude, Energy Release, and Shaking Intensity — How the size of an earthquake is measured. The differences and relationships between magnitude, energy, and fault size is discussed and shown with images.

USGS
  • Shaking
  • Magnitudes
  • Intensity
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience

Earthquake Myths Debunked — Do you know what's fact and fiction when it comes to earthquakes? Is there really such a thing as "earthquake weather"? Do you know what to do to stay safe when the ground starts shaking? Caltech scientists debunk some of the most common myths surrounding seismic events on this video.

Caltech
  • Myths
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Earthquake Practice Quiz — online quiz

Florida Intl. Univ.
  • Basics
  • Education Resources
  • Lessons Online
  • iconInteractive
  • Middle School
  • High School

Earthquake Prediction, Societal Implications — Technical paper

Journal Reviews of Geophysics
  • Prediction
  • Societal Effects
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience

Earthquake Preparedness - San Andreas - The Movie, California Reality or Hollywood Fiction? — Focus on California Earthquake Preparedness for Teachers and Students

California Emergency Management Agency
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Earthquake Quiz — online quiz

Univ. of Houston
  • Basics
  • Education Resources
  • iconInfo
  • iconInteractive
  • Middle School
  • High School

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 & Fault Types
  • Hazards
  • Paleoseismology
  • San Andreas Fault
  • Seismic Waves
  • Trenching
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience

Earthquake Science Timeline — A timeline showing the evolution of earthquake science and seismometers through the ages to present.

USGS
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience
  • College

Earthquakes — general overview of earthquakes, online USGS general interest publication

USGS
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Basics
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Prediction
  • Seismicity
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Earthquakes — PodCasts, presentations and fact sheets on the basics of earthquakes.

The Geological Society
  • Basics
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Earthquakes — Information on the basics of earthquakes.

British Geological Survey
  • Basics
  • Earth Structure
  • Intensity
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Magnitudes
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconInfo
  • Elementary school
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Earthquakes 101 "Slideshow" (PDF) — PDF format of a complete PowerPoint show for the basics

USGS
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Earth Structure
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • Basics
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Maps
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Earthquakes by Bruce A. Bolt Online Companion — links related to subjects covered in book

W.H. Freeman & Co.
  • Basics
  • Books
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • Magnitudes
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Prediction
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • College

Earthquakes in Oklahoma — Research, regulations, updates and news items related to Oklahomaâ??s recent earthquakes, and earthquake preparedness information

The Office of the Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and Environment
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Triggering of Earthquakes
  • iconInfo
  • 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 & Fault Types
  • Earthquake Facts
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience

Earthquakes: Seismic Destruction — links to photos of earthquake effects and tsunami effects

National Geographic
  • Tsunamis
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • Basics
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College

EarthScope Resources for Students & Teachers — Animations, online lectures, visualizations and more, mostly from IRIS.

EarthScope
  • Basics
  • Earth Structure
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Lessons Online
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Seismic Waves
  • Seismicity
  • Tsunamis
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • iconInteractive
  • College
  • Elementary school
  • High School
  • Middle School

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
  • Basics
  • Books
  • Earthquake Facts
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Hazards
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Magnitudes
  • Maps
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Education Resources — Education resources using geodetic data, GPS and visualization tools.

UNAVCO
  • Crustal Deformation
  • Education Resources
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • New Madrid Seismic Zone
  • iconLesson Plans
  • College

Emergency Preparedness in Schools — General information about disaster preparedness for schools with links to resources.

Community for Accredited Online Schools
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Evidence for Plate Tectonics-Teaching Box — Collection of interrelated learn concepts that focuses on finding the evidence for plate tectonics using digital resources, education standards, and comprehensive lesson plans.

DLESE
  • Lessons Online
  • Geology
  • Education Resources
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Seismicity
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School

Faces of the Earth — 4 videos: Building the Planet, Shaping the Planet, Assembling America, A Human World

AGI - American Geosciences Institute
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Forces
  • Earth Structure
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school

Faultline:Seismic Science at the Epicenter — lots of resources, information, activities and graphics concerning earthquakes in California

Exploratorium
  • Basics
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College

Faults — Photos and graphics of fault types

Univ. of Leeds
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • iconGraphics
  • General Audience
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — US federal government agency dedicated to responding to disasters.

FEMA
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies — Humanitarian organization that carries out relief efforts to assist victims of disasters.

Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

FEMA Earthquake Information — Includes resources and best practices

FEMA
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

FEMA: When Disaster Strikes - Protect Your Pets — Learn the best ways to provide for your pets during an emergency

FEMA
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Focal Mechanisms — Basic explanation for what a focal mechanism is, and how to interpret them.

USGS
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Forces
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Garlock Fault Fly-Over — Virtual fly-over of the Garlock fault. Will download a .mov file.

JPL/NASA
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College
  • Middle School

GEODE - Google Earth for Onsite and Distance Education — Virtual tours of different earth features using Google Earth.

geode.net
  • Geology
  • Maps
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • iconGraphics
  • College

Geologic Cracks Record Earthquakes on the Reelfoot Fault in Central U.S. — New high-resolution lidar data reveals cracks produced from strong shaking in past earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone.

USGS
  • New Madrid Seismic Zone
  • Paleoseismology
  • Research
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Geological Online Exhibits — geologic time scale, plate tectonics animation, and more!

UC Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley
  • Basics
  • Geology
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Geological Processes & Structures — animations of various types

Earth Science Australia
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Earth Structure
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College

Geology Animations, Interactive Exercises, and now... Songs! — Animations of geological processes.

Univ. of Kentucky
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Geology
  • iconInteractive
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • College

Geology Detectives (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 Geology Detectives investigation, and then use your skills to solve a geological mystery.

USGS
  • Trenching
  • Paleoseismology
  • Lessons Online
  • Geology
  • Education Resources
  • Earth Structure
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconGraphics
  • Elementary school

Geophysics Course Resources on the Internet — list of online course resources for undergraduate and graduate levels

Univ. of Houston
  • Basics
  • Geology
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • College

Geoscience Education Resources Network — A plethora a resources, including lesson plans, classroom science activities, curriculum materials, image collections, presentations, videos and animations, virtual field trips, etc.

American Geosciences Institute
  • Education Resources
  • Lessons Online
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • iconLesson Plans
  • College
  • Elementary school
  • High School
  • Middle School

Global Earthquake Explorer, The — easy tool for non-seismologists to retrieve, display and analyze seismic data

Univ. of South Carolina, IRIS
  • Magnitudes
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconInteractive
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • College

Ground Shaking Simulations — Simulations (videos) from computer models of earthquakes showing the resulting ground shaking.

USGS
  • Education Resources
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Modeling
  • Seismic Waves
  • Shaking
  • Intensity
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Ground-Truthing After the M4.0 Earthquake in Southern Maine, October 16, 2012 — Old-fashioned interviews are compared to Did You Feel It? responses for this earthquake.

USGS
  • Intensity
  • Research
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Groundwater Effects from Earthquakes — A description of the potential effects of earthquakes on groundwater and wells.

USGS
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Societal Effects
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

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
  • Geology
  • Education Resources
  • Basics
  • Hazards
  • Lessons Online
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconLesson Plans
  • High School
  • Elementary school
  • College
  • Middle School

Hayward Fault Field Guide — Interactive story map with 62 field trip stops for exploring the Hayward Fault in the East San Francisco Bay Area of California.

USGS
  • Geology
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • Field Trips-Virtual & Real
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • College
  • 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
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience
  • College

Hilo Tsunami Museum — The goal of the Pacific Tsunami Museum is to promote public tsunami education for the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Region. The museum will also preserve the social and cultural history of Hawaii and promote economic development on the island of Hawaii as well as statewide. The museum will serve as a living memorial to those who lost their lives in past tsunami events.

Pacific Tsunami Museum
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Historical Earthquake Theories — collection of historical earthquake theories and myths

Univ. of Vienna
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Myths
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

How Big and How Frequent Are Earthquakes on the Wasatch Fault? — Paleoseismology along the Wasatch Fault in Utah is helping to estimate the shaking risk to nearby towns.

USGS
  • Paleoseismology
  • Research
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

How Big Was That Earthquake? — Discussion of earthquake magnitudes from the USGS Volcano Hazards Program.

USGS
  • Magnitudes
  • Intensity
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • College
  • General Audience

How Earthquakes Work — Description of the basics

How Stuff Works
  • Basics
  • Earth Structure
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Magnitudes
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience

How Seismic Waves Affect Different Size Buildings — Houses and short buildings shake differently than tall buildings.

USGS
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Seismic Waves
  • Shaking
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • High School
  • Middle School

How You Can Strengthen Your Home (PDF) — Actions you can take to prepare your home for the shaking from an earthquake.

Centers for Disease Control
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Improving Earthquake Monitoring with Deep Learning — A Science for Everyone article: Can a deep-learning approach perform better than NEIC?s traditional methods to get more accurate earthquake locations and magnitudes? The NEIC monitoring system is a perfect candidate for deep learning because it processes large amounts of data.

USGS
  • Magnitudes
  • Intensity
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Research
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • Elementary school
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College
  • General Audience

InsideDisaster - The Haiti Earthquake — wholistic view of the effects and response to the Haiti earthquake, both scientific and societal

PTV Productions
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Deaths from Earthquakes
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Societal Effects
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Interactive 3D Earthquake Viewer — Uses the USGS Earthquake Catalog API. Search for earthquakes, and then interact with the 3-D earthquake location viewer. There is a classroom activity for 5-8th grades to accompany this.

Interactive Earth
  • Seismicity
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInteractive
  • iconLesson Plans
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Intermountain West, U.S., 2020 Earthquakes — An interactive geonarrative (Esri story map) about the four Intermountain West earthquakes. Learn more about these quakes and the historic earthquakes in this part of the western U.S. This immersive experience (best viewed on a computer) includes maps, photos from the field and links to journal papers, earthquake event pages, data and more.

USGS
  • Geology
  • Crustal Deformation
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • Maps
  • Hazards
  • Research
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College
  • General Audience

International Tsunami Information Centre — General and technical information, maps, and links to warning centers.

ITIC
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Tsunamis
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

IRIS Education and Public Outreach — An amazing collection of excellent education resources for all aspects of earthquakes and seismology with great images!

IRIS - Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology
  • Basics
  • San Andreas Fault
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Magnitudes
  • Intensity
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • Forces
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Education Resources
  • Earth Structure
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Lessons Online
  • Seismic Waves
  • Seismicity
  • Shaking
  • Site Response
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • Tsunamis
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconInfo
  • iconInteractive
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • Elementary school
  • General Audience
  • College

IRIS Education Resources — A multitude of educational resources for earthquake science, from visualizations and animations, to lessons and educational software. Awesome!

IRIS - Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Earth Structure
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Earthquake Facts
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • Seismic Waves
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • Hazards
  • Shaking
  • Seismicity
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Basics
  • Education Resources
  • Lessons Online
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • iconInteractive
  • iconLesson Plans
  • College
  • Elementary school
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Is the reliable prediction of individual earthquakes a realistic scientific goal? — Seven-week debate involving many authors and their views

Journal of Nature
  • Prediction
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience

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
  • iconInteractive
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College

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
  • iconLesson Plans
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • Elementary school

Liquefaction and Sea-Level Rise — An ArcGIS geonarrative storymap explaining the impacts of sea-level rise on liquefaction severity around the San Francisco Bay Area, California for the magnitude 7.0 ?HayWired? earthquake scenario along the Hayward Fault.

USGS
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College
  • General Audience

Listening to Earthquakes — music and earthquakes have something in common!

USGS
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconInteractive
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College

Listening to the Earth at the South Pole — A Science for Everyone article: If you want to listen to the softest whispers of the Earth, the South Pole is where you want to be. Seismic station, QSPA has been allowing us to eavesdrop on the Earth for over six decades, and it may soon gain the equivalent of hearing aids.

USGS
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • College
  • General Audience

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
  • Basics
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Geology
  • Intensity
  • Lessons Online
  • Magnitudes
  • Parkfield
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconLesson Plans
  • High School
  • Middle School

Living On Shaky Ground: How to Survive Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Northern California — A collection of preparedness guides for earthquakes and tsunamis especially for the Northern Coast of California

Humboldt State Univ, Dept of Geology
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Living with Earthquakes in Nevada: A Nevadan's Guide — This guide and many other preparedness-related information especially for Nevada.

Univ. of Nevada Seismological Lab
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

M7.8 Nepal Earthquake, 2015 - A Small Push to Mt. Everest — A large shallow earthquake moves Mt. Everest 3 cm southwest.

USGS
  • Research
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Forces
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Crustal Deformation
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Magnitude versus Intensity Lesson (PDF) — classroom lesson to teach the difference between earthquake magnitude and earthquake intensities (8.3MB PDF)

USGS
  • Intensity
  • Education Resources
  • Lessons Online
  • Magnitudes
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School

Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, The — A description of the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale.

USGS
  • Intensity
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker — Push your mouse around to move continents and change the landscape

PBS
  • Basics
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconInteractive
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program — Factsheet and brochure on tsunami awareness and safety.

National Weather Service
  • Tsunamis
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Natural Hazards Center — resources concerning hazards mitigation and disaster preparedness

University of Colorado
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Hazards
  • Societal Effects
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Natural Hazards Data, Images and Education — Data, images, kids quizzes, and maps from geologic hazards as well as slide shows available for order

NOAA
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Hazards
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Nepal Earthquake Sequence Educational Slides — (17MB PDF)

USGS
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • Societal Effects
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • High School

New Madrid Compendium — 600 references related to the New Mardrid earthquakes of 1811-1812.

CERI - Center for Earthquake Research and Information
  • iconInfo
  • icon

New Madrid Seismic Zone — A collection of information about the region, the historical seismicity, and the hazards.

USGS
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • Paleoseismology
  • New Madrid Seismic Zone
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Hazards
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience

New Methods for Dating and Sequencing Ancient Earthquakes — A plain-language summary of new paleoseismology methods for studying and dating past earthquakes from trench data.

USGS
  • Paleoseismology
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Paleoseismology and the Hayward Fault — How paleoseismology is revealing information about the Hayward fault and its past. New technology being used. Photos from the Tule Pond trench on the Hayward fault.

USGS
  • Paleoseismology
  • Geology
  • Books
  • Trenching
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience
  • College
  • High School

Paleoseismology, Introduction to — What is paleoseismology? How does it work?

USGS
  • Basics
  • Paleoseismology
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Papers from an NAS Colloquium on Earthquake Prediction — Excellent collection of downloadable papers

National Academy of Sciences
  • Prediction
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience

ParsQuake — Earthquake education in the global Persian community.

ParsQuake.org
  • Basics
  • Earth Structure
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Hazards
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconInfo
  • iconLesson Plans
  • Elementary school
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Perilous Earth: Understanding Processes Behind Natural Disasters — The basics including plate tectonics and earthquakes.

San Diego State Univ.
  • Intensity
  • Hazards
  • Books
  • Basics
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Magnitudes
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • General Audience

Pet Safety in Emergencies — Be prepared: make a plan and prepare a disaster kit for your pet.

Centers for Disease Control
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Photos of Faults and Fault Zone Features — photos

Univ. of Oregon
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College

Pillowcase Project, The (PDF) — The Pillowcase Project is designed for use with 3rd graders, age 8-9. The program has been reviewed by 3rd grade teachers and tailored to 3rd grade reading skills and learning abilities. The program may be adapted for use with students in 2nd and 4th grade.

American Red Cross
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • iconLesson Plans
  • Elementary school

Plate Tectonics — Interactive tutorial with easy-to-understand images and some multi-media.

The Geological Society - UK
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconInteractive
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience

Plate Tectonics & Our National Parks — excellent presentation with vivid graphics

USGS & U.S. National Park Service
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Earth Structure
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • iconLesson Plans
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College

Plate Tectonics Activities — Games, quiz

Quia
  • Basics
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconInteractive
  • iconFun & Games
  • Elementary school

Preparedness in Alaska — Links to preparedness information for earthquakes and tsunamis for Alaska residents.

Earthquake Science Center, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks
  • Tsunamis
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Preserving Historic Earthquake Records and Photos of the Instruments that Recorded Them — A project to scan a small selection of the film chips of historical earthquake recordings to digital files was started in 1996. In addition to archiving historic data from the early years, the USGS has also worked to archive photos and descriptions of early seismometers.

USGS
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Protect Your Pets in an Emergency — Help ensure your pet's safety during an earthquake.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Protecting Your Family from Earthquakes — in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean

USGS & many other organizations
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country — Earthquakes and preparedeness for everyone in California (regional booklets available), Utah, Central U.S., Nevada, Oregon, and Alaska

USGS
  • Preparedness & Response
  • New Madrid Seismic Zone
  • Maps
  • Magnitudes
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Hazards
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Earthquake Facts
  • Books
  • Basics
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • General Audience

Ray Tracing Animations — animations for various earth models and types of seismic reflections and refractions

Washington Univ.
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconGraphics
  • College

ready.gov - Plan Ahead for Disasters — Includes resources and best practices

FEMA
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Recommended Reading about Earthquakes for Kids and Adults — list of books

USGS
  • Books
  • Basics
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school

Recovering From a Natural Disaster in College: A Student?s Guide for What to do on Campus — What college students can do to prepare for a natural disaster, and what to do if one happens.

AffordableCollegesOnline.org
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Remote-Sensing Seismic Activities — you are the planner, and you have to consider the earthquake hazards and risks

Montgomery Cty Public Schools
  • Education Resources
  • Lessons Online
  • Societal Effects
  • iconLesson Plans
  • Middle School
  • High School

Rocket Rules: Earthquake Materials for Children — Storybooks and accompanying activity books, and videos that include simple activities for learning, for example, how to secure furniture and objects, what supplies should go in a go bag, basic earthquake science concepts, and how to Drop, Cover and Hold On during shaking or when you receive an earthquake early warningincludes simple activities for learning how to secure furniture and objects, what supplies should go in a go bag, basic earthquake science concepts, and how to Drop, Cover and Hold On during shaking or when you receive an earthquake early warning. In multiple languages.

SCEC & Hero and You Foundation
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Education Resources
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • Basics
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • iconFun & Games
  • Elementary school

San Andreas Fault Fly-Over — virtual fly-over of the San Andreas Fault

JPL/NASA
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • San Andreas Fault
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College

San Andreas Fault, The — overview of the San Andreas Fault, online USGS general interest publication

USGS
  • Basics
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • San Andreas Fault
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Savage Earth, The — slick presentation of the earthquake basics with great graphics and animations

PBS
  • Basics
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Prediction
  • Seismic Waves
  • Tsunamis
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

SCEC Communication, Education and Outreach — Many excellent resources for Public Education and Preparedness, K-14 Earthquake Education, and Experiential Learning and Career Advancement. Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country downloadable booklets for learning about earthquake hazards and safety recommendations in many different languages and for many different areas of the United States.

Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • Careers
  • Seismicity
  • Seismic Waves
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Hazards
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Education Resources
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Lessons Online
  • San Andreas Fault
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Elementary school
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

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
  • iconLesson Plans
  • Elementary school
  • Middle School

Science Education Resource Center (SERC) — Whether you're an undergraduate faculty member or a K-12 science teacher our suite of partner projects have materials you can use today. Connect with a community of peers as they share what really works in their classrooms.

Carleton College
  • Basics
  • Education Resources
  • Lessons Online
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • iconInteractive
  • iconLesson Plans
  • College
  • Elementary school
  • High School
  • Middle School

Science Fair Project Ideas — specific projects with directions and ideas

USGS
  • Education Resources
  • Basics
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • Elementary school

Science of Earthquakes, The — brief and basic earthquake science concepts

USGS
  • Basics
  • iconInfo
  • 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 & Fault Types
  • Education Resources
  • Earth Structure
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconLesson Plans
  • Middle School

Seismic Seiches — Description and history of seismic seiches.

USGS
  • Seismic Seiches
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Seismic seiches from the March 1964 Alaska earthquake — Seismic Seiches from the March 1964 Alaska Earthquake

Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys
  • Seismic Seiches
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Seismic Waves — Basics about seismic waves with some good animations and images.

Math is Fun
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • General Audience

Seismic Waves — graphics to explain different types of seismic waves

UPSeis, Univ. of Michigan
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Seismic Waves — demonstration on different types of seismic waves

Aspire
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInteractive
  • Middle School
  • High School

Seismicity of the Earth 1900?2018 Map/Poster — Poster-sized map illustrating 119 years of global seismicity in the context of global plate tectonics and the Earth?s physiography. Primarily designed for use by earth scientists, engineers, and educators, this map provides a comprehensive overview of strong (magnitude [M] 5.5 and larger) earthquakes since 1900.

USGS
  • Maps
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Seismicity
  • Education Resources
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Basics
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • Elementary school
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

seismicsoundlab — Creative visualizations of seismicity, seismic waves, ground motion. Learning units are also being added.

seismicsoundlab.org
  • Seismic Waves
  • Seismicity
  • Shaking
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Seismographs: Keeping Track of Earthquakes — brief description on how seismographs work to locate earthquakes

USGS
  • Seismic Waves
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Seismology in the City — How seismologists can use noise to see under the ground.

USGS
  • Seismic Waves
  • Site Response
  • Research
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Seismology Teaching Resources — Educational page with seismo links, diagrams, animations, and other teaching resources.

Arizona State University
  • Education Resources
  • Earth Structure
  • Crustal Deformation
  • Hazards
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College

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
  • Seismic Waves
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Education Resources
  • Earth Structure
  • Books
  • Basics
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconGraphics
  • General Audience
  • College

Severity of an Earthquake, The — measuring earthquakes, online USGS general interest publication

USGS
  • Magnitudes
  • Intensity
  • Hazards
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

SF72 — Preparedness information targeted at the San Francisco area.

San Francisco Department of Emergency Management
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

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
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • iconInteractive
  • iconLesson Plans
  • Middle School

Shakes & Quakes — Legos and earthquakes

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
  • Lessons Online
  • Shaking
  • Education Resources
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • iconLesson Plans
  • Middle School

Shaking in the Atwood Building in Anchorage, Alaska — This video presents a visualization of how the Atwood Building in Anchorage, Alaska, shook during the M7.1 January 24, 2016, Iniskin, Alaska, earthquake. The building was instrumented by U.S. Geological Survey to obtain data to study its behavior and performance during strong shaking. Such data is useful to make decisions for improving the building's performance.

USGS
  • Shaking
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College
  • Middle School

Shaking of Frontier Building - Anchorage, Alaska, During Mw7.1 Earthquake, January 24, 2016 — This video presents a visualization of shaking that was recorded in the Frontier Building in Anchorage, Alaska, during the Mw7.1 earthquake, January 24, 2016, Iniskin, Alaska.

USGS
  • Shaking
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • iconGraphics
  • Elementary school
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College
  • General Audience

Shaking up Earth — A review of the history of the theory of plate tectonics.

Science News
  • Plate Tectonics
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • High School
  • College
  • General Audience

Sonic Booms — How Can You Tell the Difference Between a Sonic Boom and an Earthquake on a Seismogram? Some Interesting Facts About Sonic Booms.

USGS
  • Earthquake Facts
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience
  • Middle School

Southern California Earthquakes, Faults, Photos & Rupture Movies — all things "earthquake" in southern California

Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) & USGS
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College
  • Middle School

Staying Safe Where the Earth Shakes — A booklet that includes the "The Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety" - basic guidelines for what to do before, during, and after a damaging earthquake.

USGS
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Books
  • Basics
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • General Audience

Streetcar 2 Subduction — a collection of geological field trips that take users to some of the world-class geological sites of the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1979, Clyde Wahrhaftig created a geology tour of the San Francisco Bay Area, which was updated and published by AGU as ?A Streetcar to Subduction and Other Plate Tectonic Trips by Public Transport in San Francisco" in 1984. Forty years later, as part of AGU's Centennial, the "Streetcar" tours have been revised, with new trips added, and old exposures that have vanished removed, taking what once was a print book and turning it into a digital experience through Google Earth.

AGU (American Geophysical Union)
  • Field Trips-Virtual & Real
  • Geology
  • San Andreas Fault
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInteractive

Table-Top Earthquakes — USGS Open-File Report 98-767 (online)

USGS
  • Education Resources
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • iconLesson Plans
  • High School
  • College

Tectonic Geomorphology: Figures — Figures from the book "Tectonic Geomorphology" by Douglas W. Burbank and Robert S. Anderson

Institute for Crustal Studies
  • Earth Structure
  • Books
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • iconGraphics
  • College

The "Snow Plow Theory" of Early-Arriving Tsunamis — What is a splay fault, and how can they affect tsunamis?

USGS
  • Geology
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Research
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

The 2023 Kahramanmara?, Turkey, Earthquake Sequence — An interactive geonarrative that explains the tectonic setting of Turkey, historical seismicity of Turkey from 1900, details on both the M 7.8 and M 7.5 earthquake sequences, kinematics of the earthquake rupture, remote sensing observations that show displacements across the active faults.

USGS
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconInteractive
  • iconGraphics
  • General Audience
  • College
  • High School

The 2023 National Seismic Hazard Model ? What's Shaking? — A Science for Everyone article: No one can predict earthquakes. But existing faults and past earthquakes give us information about future earthquakes, and geology tells us how the ground shakes during an earthquake.

USGS
  • Research
  • Hazards
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience
  • College
  • High School

The Blind Zone of Earthquake Early Warning — A Science for Everyone article: One USGS scientist has sorted through the challenges, the claims, and the data to determine what the possibilities and limitations really are for EEW, and the results may surprise you.

USGS
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Societal Effects
  • Education Resources
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • College
  • General Audience

The Early History of Seismometry (to 1900) — A walk through the evolution of earthquake monitoring instruments.

USGS
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience

The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 — An historial perspective from a history professor.

Univ. of Hong Kong
  • Societal Effects
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Deaths from Earthquakes
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • iconInfo
  • High School
  • College
  • General Audience

The HayWired Scenario: An Urban Earthquake in a Connected World — An ArcGIS geo-narrative storymap with compelling images showing the effects and consequences possible in the next large earthquake on the Hayward Fault in the San Francisco Bay Area.

USGS
  • Societal Effects
  • Shaking
  • Seismic Waves
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • Modeling
  • Maps
  • Intensity
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Hazards
  • Field Trips-Virtual & Real
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • Basics
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College

The Parkfield, California Earthquake Experiment — Information about past earthquakes and current monitoring efforts.

USGS
  • Shaking
  • Seismicity
  • San Andreas Fault
  • Prediction
  • Parkfield
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • General Audience

The Physics of Tsunamis — Explains the mechanisms of tsunami generation and propagation.

Univ. of Washington
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

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
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • iconInteractive
  • iconLesson Plans
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

Theory of the Earth — online book on the science of earthquakes

Caltech
  • Tsunamis
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Books
  • Basics
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • College

Theory of the Earth, The New — This is the only book on the whole landscape of deep Earth processes that ties together all the strands of the subdisciplines. This book is a complete update of Andersonâ??s Theory of the Earth (1989).

Caltech
  • Basics
  • Books
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • 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
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • 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
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Today in Earthquake History — what happened today in earthquake history

USGS
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Earthquake Facts
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College

Tohoku, Japan 2011 M9.0 Educational Slides — Educational slides for the 2011 Tohoku,Japan M9.0 Earthquake.

USGS
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Intensity
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Tsunamis
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • High School

Tracing earthquakes: seismology in the classroom — Reconstructing an ancient Chinese seismograph, a simple wave machine, and investigating earthquake-proof buildings.

Science in School
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconInfo
  • iconLesson Plans
  • High School
  • Middle School

Travel Time Curves — travel time graph for seismic waves

USGS
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • College

Try It Yourself Calculator — How much bigger is a magnitude 8.7 earthquake than a magnitude 5.8 earthquake?

USGS
  • Magnitudes
  • iconInfo
  • iconFun & Games
  • iconInteractive
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Tsunami — Interactive presentation covering the science of tsunamis, preparedness, research, and historical tsunamis.

Woods Hole
  • Tsunamis
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInteractive
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College
  • Middle School

Tsunami Education — Links to educational materials, warning centers.

NOAA
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Tsunamis
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • College
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school

Tsunami Hazard Mitigation — Information about tsunamis that may save your life. Material excerpted from "Tsunami! The Great Waves"

Univ. of Washington
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Tsunami Preparedness Guidebook — Downloadable PDF and additional links to tsunami preparedness websites.

GeoHazards International
  • Tsunamis
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Tsunami! — Site provides general information about tsunamis, their causes and history as well as what to do in case of a tsunami.

University of Washington by the Department of Earth and Space Sciences
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Tsunami! - Tsunamis Past and Present — Basics about tsunamis, information about preparedness, and links to additional resources.

Univ. of Washington
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • College
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience

Tsunami: The Great Waves — Basic information about the basics of tsunamis.

International Tsunami Information Center
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Tsunamis — short news piece with images

The Why Files
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Tsunamis — Basic science of tsunamis, preparedness, and focus on California and historical information.

California Geological Survey
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

TsunamiZone.org — Resources and information about tsunami education and preparedness.

SCEC
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Understanding Earthquakes — Brief history of seismology to 1910, earthquake and plate tectonic quizzes, earthquake accounts by famous people, elastic rebound animation, and links to addition resources.

UC Santa Barbara
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Basics
  • iconInfo
  • iconInteractive
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience

Understanding Quakes — description, photos, and graphics of earthquake basics and effects of earthquakes in Turkey

The Why Files
  • Basics
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • Deaths from Earthquakes
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • Surface Features-Faults
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • Hazards
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Maps
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Prediction
  • Seismic Waves
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Understanding Tsunamis — learn about tsunamis with a model

DiscoverySchool.com
  • Tsunamis
  • Lessons Online
  • Education Resources
  • iconLesson Plans
  • Middle School

UPSeis Seismology Questions Answered — magnitudes, research, locations, seismic waves, and all the basics explained, as well as preparedness and hazards

UPSeis, Univ. of Michigan
  • Basics
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Hazards
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

US Agency for International Development — US agency set up to provide relief to other countries suffering from disaster

USAID
  • Preparedness & Response
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Using Distant Seismometers to Monitor and Analyze Volcanic Eruptions — Science for Everyone article

USGS
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Seismographs, Instruments
  • Research
  • Hazards
  • iconGraphics
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College
  • 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
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College

Volcanic and seismic hazards on the Island of Hawaii — summary of earthquake hazards in Hawaii

USGS
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience

Volcano World's Earth Science Lessons — Lots of great earth science lessons good for all ages, slide-style with color diagrams and photographs

Oregon State University
  • Education Resources
  • Earth Structure
  • Basics
  • Geology
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Lessons Online
  • Plate Tectonics
  • iconLesson Plans
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School

Walking the Earthquake Trail — Discover the geology of the San Andreas Fault through interpretive signs on this paved loop through meadows and along a stream lined with alders and willows at Point Reyes National Seashore.

National Park Service
  • Geology
  • San Andreas Fault
  • Field Trips-Virtual & Real
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Wallace Creek Interpretive Trail Guide — Interactive online trail guide to Wallace Creek site on the San Andreas Fault

USGS & Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Washington DC Stone and Brick Buildings Vulnerable to Distant Quakes — Science for Everyone article

USGS
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Research
  • Shaking
  • iconInfo
  • General Audience

Watch Buildings Move During Earthquakes — Real videos of buildings shaking during real earthquakes, and some re-creations.

American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Societal Effects
  • Site Response
  • Shaking
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • Forces
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College
  • Middle School
  • High School

What if the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System Had Been Operating During the M6.9 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake? — How will ShakeAlert® likely perform now on a large earthquake impacting a major urban area? How much warning will you get? To answer this, let?s do a thought experiment...

USGS
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Shaking
  • Societal Effects
  • iconInfo
  • College
  • General Audience
  • High School

What to Expect in a Big Urban Earthquake — An ArcGIS geo-narrative storymap that describes what can be expected if there is a large earthquake in a populated urban area.

USGS
  • Societal Effects
  • Shaking
  • Preparedness & Response
  • Intensity
  • Hazards
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • iconInteractive
  • iconInfo
  • iconGraphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College