Earthquake Topics — Seismic waves

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Organization	Topics	Content Types	Level
About Earthquakes — descriptions and graphics of earthquakes and their effects
Univ. of Nevada, Reno	Seismic waves Plate tectonics Photos, Earthquake Magnitudes Intensity Effects, Earthquake Earth structure Basics	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
Animation of P, S & Surface Waves — seismic wave animations
San Diego State Univ.	Seismic waves Locating Earthquakes Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Basics	Interactive Info	High School General Audience
Digital Online Geology - Earthquakes — Online version of "Earthquakes" by Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, and Dennis Tasa. This informative chapter about earthquakes has images, text, quizzes, and narrated animations explaining what happens when earthquakes occur.
TASA Graphic Arts	Basics Books Damage from Earthquakes Effects, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Intensity Locating Earthquakes Locations Magnitudes Plate tectonics Prediction Seismic waves Shaking	Graphics Info Lesson Plans	College High School
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 Plate tectonics Magnitudes Locations Locating Earthquakes Lessons online Intensity Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Hazards Geology Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Engineering, Earthquake Effects, Earthquake Education resources Earth structure Basics	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School High School Elementary school College
Earthquake 101 Powerpoint Slideshow Download — a complete PowerPoint show for the basics
USGS	Photos, Earthquake Effects, Earthquake Earth structure Damage from Earthquakes Basics Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Historic Earthquakes History-Earthquakes, Seismology Locating Earthquakes Maps Plate tectonics Seismic waves	Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
Earthquake 101 Powerpoint Slideshow online — preview of the complete PowerPoint show for the basics
USGS	Basics Earth structure Effects, Earthquake Earthquake facts Photos, Earthquake Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Locating Earthquakes Plate tectonics Seismic waves	Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
Earthquake Science Explained — A series of short articles for students, teachers, and parents originally published as weekly features in The San Francisco Chronicle. This USGS General Information Product presents some of the new understanding gained and scientific advances made in the century since the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
USGS	Basics Effects, Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Hazards Paleoseismology Preparedness San Andreas Fault Seismic waves Trenching	Info	Middle School High School Elementary school General Audience
Earthquake Unit — six challenges with lesson plans, online activities, and links to resources about the basics, earthquake probabilities, preparedness, earthquakes in the past, and seismic waves
San Francisco USD	Lessons online Hazards Education resources Basics Preparedness Seismic waves	Lesson Plans Interactive Graphics	Middle School
Earthquakes — slide-show type presentation
Tech Museum of Innovation	Basics Damage from Earthquakes Earth structure Effects, Earthquake Photos, Earthquake Historic Earthquakes History-Earthquakes, Seismology Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Locating Earthquakes Magnitudes Nuclear explosions Plate tectonics Preparedness Seismic waves	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience
Earthquakes! — 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, Earthquakes Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Hazards Historic Earthquakes History-Earthquakes, Seismology Maps Plate tectonics Prediction Seismic waves	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
Earthquakes: The Rolling Earth — slide-show type presentation
Univ. of North Dakota	Basics Magnitudes Seismic waves	Graphics	General Audience Middle School Elementary school
Essentials of Geology Animations — A collection of animations describing concepts of geology
W.W. Norton and Company	Geology Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Earth structure Crustal deformation Plate tectonics Seismic waves	Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Exploring the Earth — interactively see the effect of media velocity on reflection and refraction of seismic waves, rotate Africa back to South America, Snell's Law
Univ. of Utah	Seismic waves Plate tectonics	Interactive Graphics	High School College
Getting Ready for the Big One — stigate types of earthquake waves and their effects
DiscoverySchool.com	Education resources Geology Lessons online Seismic waves	Lesson Plans	Middle School
Global Earthquake Explorer, The — easy tool for non-seismologists to retrieve, display and analyze seismic data
Univ. of South Carolina, IRIS	Magnitudes Locations Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Seismic waves	Interactive Graphics	High School College
High Quality Earthquake Animations — Simulations of earthquake ruptures that were run on the supercomputers at Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Modeling Seismic waves Shaking	Graphics	High School General Audience College
How Earthquakes Work — description of the basics
How Stuff Works	Basics Earth structure Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Locating Earthquakes Magnitudes Plate tectonics Preparedness Seismic waves	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience
Human Wave (PDF) — learn about the motions of P & S waves with a fun participating exercise
USGS	Seismic waves Lessons online Education resources	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School Elementary school
Ideas for Activities Using Live Seismograms — ideas for how to use real-time earthquake information in the classroom
USGS Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory	Education resources Lessons online Seismic waves	Lesson Plans	High School College
Incorp. Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS) Education webpage — resources and opportunities for educators
Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS)	Seismicity Seismic waves Earth structure	Info Graphics	High School General Audience College Middle School
Listening to Earthquakes — music and earthquakes have something in common!
USGS	Seismic waves	Interactive	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Living in Earthquake Country-Teaching Box — Explores how and why earthquakes cause damage, 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	Damage from Earthquakes Hazards Effects, Earthquake Education resources Intensity Lessons online Magnitudes Prediction Seismic waves Societal Effects	Graphics Info Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
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 - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Geology Intensity Lessons online Magnitudes Parkfield Seismic waves	Lesson Plans	High School Middle School
Ray Tracing Animations — animations for various earth models and types of seismic reflections and refractions
Washington Univ.	Seismic waves	Graphics	College
Savage Earth, The — slick presentation of the earthquake basics with great graphics and animations
PBS	Basics Engineering, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Prediction Seismic waves Tsunamis	Graphics	High School General Audience College
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 — demonstration on different types of seismic waves
Aspire	Seismic waves	Graphics Interactive	Middle School High School
Seismographs: Keeping Track of Earthquakes — brief description on how seismographs work to locate earthquakes
USGS	Seismic waves Networks Locating Earthquakes Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
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
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	Education resources Earth structure Books Basics Plate tectonics Seismic waves	Lesson Plans Graphics	College General Audience
Snell's Law — interactive webpage where you can learn about reflection and refraction by changing the angles and watching what happens (requires Java 1.1)
Univ. of Utah	Seismic waves	Graphics Interactive Fun & Games	Middle School Elementary school 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 Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Seismic waves	Info Lesson Plans	High School Middle School
Travel Time Information & Calculator — Choose a seismic station location and a recent earthquake, and see how long it takes different types of seismic waves to travel from the epicenter to your station. Travel time curve and other phase information.
USGS	Locating Earthquakes Earth structure Seismic waves	Interactive	High School College
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

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