Earthquake Topics — Locations

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Organization	Topics	Content Types	Level
Depth of Earthquakes — one-page plot and explanation
Berkeley	Maps Locations	Info	Middle School High School General Audience College
Determining the Depth of an Earthquake — brief discussion on depths of earthquakes
USGS	Locating Earthquakes Locations	Info	Middle School High School General Audience College
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
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 Locations Magnitudes Maps Preparedness	Graphics Info	General Audience
Exploring Earthquakes in Space and Time Through the Internet and GIS — GIS-related earthquake lesson plan
USGS & Rocky Mountain Mapping Center	Seismicity Locations Lessons online GIS Education resources	Lesson Plans	High School College
Flinn-Engdahl Regions — description of regions used to identify locations of earthquakes world-wide
USGS	Locations Maps	Info	High School General Audience College
GETIT (Geoscience Education Through Interactive Technology) — software you can order that uses real data
Cambrian Systems, Inc.	Locations	Interactive Graphics	High School College
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
Plot that Quake! — lesson plan for using the Internet to plot earthquakes over time
Berkeley	Locations Lessons online Education resources	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - NCA edition — Earthquakes and preparedeness in northern California
USGS & many other organizations	Basics Books Earthquake facts Effects, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Hazards Locating Earthquakes Locations Magnitudes Maps Preparedness San Andreas Fault	Info Graphics	General Audience
Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - SCA edition — Earthquakes and preparedeness in southern California
USGS & Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)	San Andreas Fault Preparedness Maps Magnitudes Locations Locating Earthquakes Hazards Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Effects, Earthquake Earthquake facts Books Basics	Info Graphics	General Audience
Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - Utah edition — Earthquakes and prepardeness in Utah
Utah Seismic Safety Commission	Basics Books Effects, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Hazards Locating Earthquakes Locations Magnitudes Maps Preparedness	Graphics Info	General Audience
Science Explained, The — links to popular science articles about earthquake research
USGS	Basics Crustal deformation Effects, Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Education resources Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Geology Hazards Historic Earthquakes History-Earthquakes, Seismology Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Locations Magnitudes Modeling Plate tectonics Prediction Rock mechanics Seismicity Statistics	Info	General Audience College
Tracking Earthquakes Around the World — plot earthquakes on map using Internet resources
DiscoverySchool.com	Education resources Lessons online Locations	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
Xpeditions: Earthquakes & Volcanoes — Compare plate tectonic maps with population density maps, and analyze what these maps imply about population and seismic hazards.
National Geographic	Societal Effects Plate tectonics Maps Locations Lessons online	Lesson Plans Graphics Interactive	Middle School Elementary school

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