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100% Chance of an Earthquake — Earthquake statistics.
USGS	Statistics Prediction Basics	Info	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	Info Graphics Interactive	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	Graphics Interactive Info	Middle School High School College General Audience
About Earthquakes — basics about earthquakes
University of Washington	Basics Seismic Waves Plate Tectonics Magnitudes Locating Earthquakes Intensity	Info	General Audience High School
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	Graphics Interactive	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	Info	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	Info	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	Info	College General Audience High 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
Brief History of Seismology to 1910 — Brief description of history of seismology
UC Santa Barbara	History-Earthquakes, Seismology	Info	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	Lesson Plans Info Graphics	General Audience Elementary school Middle School High School College
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	Graphics	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	Info	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	Info Interactive	College Middle School High School 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	Graphics Info	College General Audience High School
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	Info	College General Audience High School
Continents in Collision: Pangea Ultima — Short news piece with images
NASA	Crustal Deformation Plate Tectonics	Info	Middle School High School General Audience College
Cool Earthquake Facts — fascinating earthquake facts
USGS	Basics Earthquake Facts	Info	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	Info Graphics	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	Info	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	Info	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	Graphics Info	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	Graphics Interactive Info	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	Lesson Plans Info Graphics	High School College
Determining the Depth of an Earthquake — brief discussion on depths of earthquakes
USGS	Locating Earthquakes	Info	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	Info Graphics	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	Info Lesson Plans	College Elementary school High School Middle School
Discover Our Earth — Portal for teachers and students for learn the basics about earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, topography, and sea level changes.
USGS & DLESE	Plate Tectonics Lessons Online Basics	Lesson Plans Interactive Graphics	High School College
Downloadable Animations — Animation clips and other geo-educational items
UC Santa Barbara	Education Resources Plate Tectonics	Graphics	College General Audience High School Middle School
Earth Like a Puzzle — Plate tectonics basics.
Scripps	Basics Earth Structure Plate Tectonics	Info Interactive Graphics	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	Info Graphics	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	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School High School Elementary school College
Earth Science Explorer — virtual museum
NASA	Basics Earth Structure History-Earthquakes, Seismology Plate Tectonics	Graphics Info	Middle School High School College
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	Info	College General Audience High School Middle 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 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	Info	College General Audience High School
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 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	Interactive	College General Audience High School Middle School
Earthquake Practice Quiz — online quiz
Florida Intl. Univ.	Basics Education Resources Lessons Online	Interactive	Middle School High School
Earthquake Quiz — online quiz
Univ. of Houston	Basics Education Resources	Info Interactive	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	Info	Middle School High School General Audience
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 — PodCasts, presentations and fact sheets on the basics of earthquakes.
The Geological Society	Basics Plate Tectonics	Info	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	Info	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	Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
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	Info	Middle School High School General Audience
Earthquakes: Seismic Destruction — links to photos of earthquake effects and tsunami effects
National Geographic	Tsunamis Photos, Earthquake Basics	Graphics	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	Graphics Info Interactive	College Elementary school High School 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	Info Graphics	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	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Faults — Photos and graphics of fault types
Univ. of Leeds	Faults & Fault Types	Graphics	General Audience Middle School High School College
Garlock Fault Fly-Over — Virtual fly-over of the Garlock fault. Will download a .mov file.
JPL/NASA	Faults & Fault Types	Graphics	High School General Audience Elementary school College Middle School
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	Info	College General Audience High School
Geological Online Exhibits — geologic time scale, plate tectonics animation, and more!
UC Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley	Basics Geology	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
Geological Processes & Structures — animations of various types
Earth Science Australia	Faults & Fault Types Earth Structure	Graphics	Middle School High School College
Geology Animations, Interactive Exercises, and now... Songs! — Animations of geological processes.
Univ. of Kentucky	Plate Tectonics Geology	Interactive Graphics	High School 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	Graphics Info Lesson 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	Interactive Graphics	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	Lesson Plans Graphics Info	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	Info	College General Audience High School
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	Lesson 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	Interactive Info	High School College General Audience
Historical Earthquake Theories — collection of historical earthquake theories and myths
Univ. of Vienna	History-Earthquakes, Seismology Historic Earthquakes Myths	Info	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	Info	College General Audience High School
How Big Was That Earthquake? — Discussion of earthquake magnitudes from the USGS Volcano Hazards Program.
USGS	Magnitudes Intensity	Info	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	Info Graphics	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	Info	General Audience Elementary school High School Middle School
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	Graphics Info	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	Graphics Info	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	Graphics Interactive Lesson 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	Graphics Interactive Info	Middle School High School College 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	Lesson Plans Info Interactive Graphics	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	Graphics Info Interactive Lesson Plans	College Elementary school General Audience High School Middle School
Jules Verne Voyager and Jules Verne Voyager, Jr. — an interactive map tool that enables students and scientists to better understand the relationships between geophysical and geological processes, structures, and measurements with high-precision GPS data. These are Javascript based tools.
UNAVCO	Seismicity Plate Tectonics Maps	Interactive Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
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
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	Graphics Interactive Info	Middle School High School College 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
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	Info	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	Lesson Plans	High School Middle School
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	Info	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	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School High School
Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker — Push your mouse around to move continents and change the landscape
PBS	Basics History-Earthquakes, Seismology Plate Tectonics	Interactive Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
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	Interactive Info Graphics	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	Graphics Info	College High School
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	Info	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	Info	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	Graphics Info	General Audience College High School
Paleoseismology, Introduction to — What is paleoseismology? How does it work?
USGS	Basics Paleoseismology	Info	College General Audience High School
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	Info Lesson 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	Interactive Info	High School General Audience
Photos of Faults and Fault Zone Features — photos
Univ. of Oregon	Faults & Fault Types	Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Plate Tectonics — Interactive tutorial with easy-to-understand images and some multi-media.
The Geological Society - UK	Plate Tectonics	Interactive Graphics	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	Graphics Info Lesson Plans	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
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	Info	College General Audience High School
Recommended Reading about Earthquakes for Kids and Adults — list of books
USGS	Books Basics	Info	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school
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	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
San Andreas Fault Fly-Over — virtual fly-over of the San Andreas Fault
JPL/NASA	Faults & Fault Types San Andreas Fault	Graphics	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	Info Graphics	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	Graphics	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	Lesson Plans Info Graphics	Elementary school College General Audience High 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	Graphics Info Interactive Lesson Plans	College Elementary school High School Middle School
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 — brief and basic earthquake science concepts
USGS	Basics	Info	Middle School High School Elementary school College
Seismic Waves — demonstration on different types of seismic waves
Aspire	Seismic Waves	Graphics Interactive	Middle School High School
Seismic Waves — graphics to explain different types of seismic waves
UPSeis, Univ. of Michigan	Seismic Waves	Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
Seismic Waves — Basics about seismic waves with some good animations and images.
Math is Fun	Seismic Waves	Info Graphics	High School General Audience
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	Graphics Info	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	Graphics Info	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	Info Graphics	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	Info	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	Info Graphics	Middle School High School 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
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	Graphics	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	Graphics	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	Info Graphics	High School College General Audience
Southern California Earthquakes, Faults, Photos & Rupture Movies — all things "earthquake" in southern California
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) & USGS	Faults & Fault Types Photos, Earthquake	Graphics Info	High School General Audience College Middle School
Table-Top Earthquakes — USGS Open-File Report 98-767 (online)
USGS	Education Resources Faults & Fault Types	Lesson Plans	High School 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	Info	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	Interactive Graphics	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	Info	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	Info	High School 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	Info	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	Interactive Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
The Wave that Shook the World — Online companion to the NOVA broadcast with excellent animations, Q&anmp;A, images, and lesson plans for teachers.
PBS-NOVA	Books Effects, Earthquake Historic Earthquakes Lessons Online Preparedness & Response Tsunamis	Graphics Info Interactive Lesson Plans	College General Audience High School
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
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
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	Graphics Info	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	Info Lesson Plans	High School Middle School
Try It Yourself Calculator — How much bigger is a magnitude 8.7 earthquake than a magnitude 5.8 earthquake?
USGS	Magnitudes	Info Fun & Games Interactive	College General Audience High School Middle School
Tsunami — Interactive presentation covering the science of tsunamis, preparedness, research, and historical tsunamis.
Woods Hole	Tsunamis	Graphics Interactive	High School General Audience Elementary school College Middle School
Tsunami Education — Links to educational materials, warning centers.
NOAA	Preparedness & Response Tsunamis	Graphics Info	Middle School College High School General Audience Elementary school
Tsunami! - Tsunamis Past and Present — Basics about tsunamis, information about preparedness, and links to additional resources.
Univ. of Washington	Tsunamis	Info Graphics	College Middle School High School General Audience
Tsunamis — short news piece with images
The Why Files	Effects, Earthquake Tsunamis	Info	Middle School High School General Audience College
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	Info Interactive Graphics	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	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
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	Info	Middle School High School General Audience College
Using Distant Seismometers to Monitor and Analyze Volcanic Eruptions — Science for Everyone article
USGS	Locating Earthquakes Seismographs, Instruments Research Hazards	Graphics Info	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	Interactive Info Graphics	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	Info	Middle School High School 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	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
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	Info Graphics	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	Info	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	Interactive Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College