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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

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

Animations for Earthquake Terms and Concepts — Flash animations illustrating basic earthquake terms and concepts.

USGS
  • Education Resources
  • Basics
  • College
  • Elementary school
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • Middle School

Become an Earthquake Scientist — What does a geophysicist do? What do you need to study in school to become a geophysicist? What are the opportunities?

USGS
  • Careers
  • iconInfo
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • 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

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

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

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

Cool Earthquake Facts — fascinating earthquake facts

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

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

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 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 "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 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 Practice Quiz — online quiz

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photos of Faults and Fault Zone Features — photos

Univ. of Oregon
  • Faults & Fault Types
  • iconGraphics
  • 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
  • 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

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

USGS
  • Books
  • Basics
  • iconInfo
  • 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
  • iconLesson 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
  • 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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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! - 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

Tsunamis — short news piece with images

The Why Files
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Tsunamis
  • iconInfo
  • 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
  • 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

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

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

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 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