Only USGS Links

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Organization	Topics	Content Types	Levels
100% Chance of an Earthquake — Earthquake statistics.
USGS	Statistics Prediction Basics	Info	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
2008 Bay Area Earthquake Probabilities — The overall probability of a magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake in the Greater Bay Area is 63%, about 2 out of 3.
USGS	Preparedness & Response	Info	General Audience
7 Steps to an Earthquake Resilient Business (PDF) — How to prepare your business for an earthquake
USGS & many other organizations	Preparedness & Response	Info	General Audience
A Comparison of Two Bay Area Earthquakes: 1989 v. 1906 — Investigate the shaking intensity and magnitude of these two earthquakes.
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Intensity Lessons online Magnitudes San Andreas Fault	Graphics Lesson Plans	High School
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	Info	Middle School High School College
Bigger Faults Make Bigger EQ's — three different rope lengths are used to demonstrate how a fault ruptures in an EQ and why bigger faults make bigger EQ's
USGS	Magnitudes Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc.	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
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
Can We Predict Earthquakes? PodCast — Scientist Mike Blanpied discusses the science of earthquake prediction.
USGS	Prediction	Info	General Audience
Casualty (Fatality) Totals, A Note About — One-pager explaining why the numbers vary on different list.
USGS	Deaths from Earthquakes Societal Effects Statistics	Info	General Audience
Central & Eastern US Fact Sheets, See also — 2-page information sheets for a general audience
USGS	New Madrid Seismic Zone	Info	General Audience
Chile (02/27/2010) Educational Slide Set — Educational slideset for the 02/27/2010 Chile Earthquake( Download PDF)
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Intensity Plate tectonics	Graphics Info	College High School
Coastal and Marine Geology Program — All 35 coastal States and the island territories experience coastal erosion. Balancing the competing needs of citizens, government, industry, and the environment.
USGS	Societal Effects Tsunamis	Graphics Info	General Audience
Coloring Pages to Print — Earthquake-related coloring pages to print out and color
USGS	Basics	Graphics Interactive	Elementary school
Cool Earthquake Facts — fascinating earthquake facts
USGS	Basics Earthquake facts	Info	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Darfield, New Zealand Earthquake (09/03/2010) and its Aftershocks, Including the 02/21/2011 Christchurch Event — Educational slideset for the 09/03/2010 Darfield, New Zealand Earthquake and its Aftershocks, Including the 02/21/2011 Christchurch Event (Download PDF)
USGS	Education resources Intensity Shaking Societal Effects	Graphics Info	High School 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
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
Early History of Seismometry (to 1900), The — history of various instruments throughout the history of seismology
USGS	History-Earthquakes, Seismology	Info Graphics	High School General Audience College
Earth's Crust, The — how thick is the Earth's crust?
USGS	Maps Earth structure	Graphics	General Audience College
Earthquake "Top 10" Lists, Maps & Statistics — 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	Elementary school College General Audience High School Middle School
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 ABC: A Child's View of Earthquake Facts and Feelings — by kids for kids, with a special section for parents and teachers
USGS	Basics	Info Graphics	Elementary 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 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 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
Earthquake Model — earthquake recurrence, size, and prediction demonstration instructions, brick & sandpaper model
USGS	Basics Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Prediction	Info Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
Earthquake Monitoring — explore the history behind earthquake monitoring; list of additional readings and links also included
USGS	Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring History-Earthquakes, Seismology Basics	Info	Middle School High School
Earthquake Quartet #1 — USGS seismologist Andrew Michael explores both music and audio playbacks of the earth shaking and finds new ways to learn about the earth, earthquakes, musical instruments and music.
USGS	Basics Education resources Forces People Seismic waves	Fun & Games	General Audience
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 San Andreas Fault Seismic waves Trenching	Info	Middle School High School Elementary 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 and Plate Tectonics — Explains the theory of earthquakes and plate tectonics.
USGS	Plate tectonics	Info	General Audience
Earthquakes, MegaQuakes, and the Movies — discussion about facts versus fantasies
USGS	Societal Effects Shaking San Andreas Fault Prediction Plate tectonics Myths Magnitudes Forces Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Earthquake facts Effects, Earthquake Damage from Earthquakes	Info	Middle School High School General Audience
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 & Response	Graphics Info	General Audience
Educational slides for the M7.0 January 12, 2010 and M8.8 February 27, 2010 Chile earthquakes — Details on the rupture of the two earthquakes, the shaking distribution, aftershock zone, estimated fatality numbers, and comparisons between the two.Slides with notes
USGS	Deaths from Earthquakes Education resources Effects, Earthquake Intensity Modeling Plate tectonics Shaking	Graphics Info	College General Audience High School
EQs on the Surface (PDF) — use topo maps, seismicity maps, and fault maps to understand the connection between the surface features, locations of EQs and mapped faults
USGS	Lessons online Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Maps Seismicity	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Flinn-Engdahl Regions — description of regions used to identify locations of earthquakes world-wide
USGS	Locations Maps	Info	High School General Audience College
Focal Mechanisms — Basic explanation for what a focal mechanism is, and how to interpret them.
USGS	Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Forces	Info	General Audience
Groundwater Effects from Earthquakes — A description of the potential effects of earthquakes on groundwater and wells.
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Societal Effects	Info	General Audience
Hazards 101, Earthquake — The basics of how the USGS National Earthquake Hazard Maps are made.
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Forces Hazards Shaking	Info	General Audience 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
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
Investigating Earthquakes Through Regional Seismicity — excellent graphics, animations and activities
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) & USGS	Education resources Basics Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Lessons online Seismicity	Interactive Graphics Lesson Plans	General Audience College High School
Kid's Earthquake Questions & Answers — kids' questions answered by scientists
Dromore National School, Republic of Ireland & USGS	Basics	Interactive Info	Elementary school
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
Late Night Musings of an Earthquake Seismologist — USGS Scientist Paul A. Reasenberg candidly discusses earthquake preparedness.
USGS	Societal Effects	Info	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
Magnitude / Intensity Comparison — Explains the difference between magnitude and intensity.
USGS	Magnitudes Intensity	Info	General Audience
Magnitude versus Intensity Lesson (PDF) — classroom lesson to teach the difference between earthquake magnitude and earthquake intensities
USGS	Intensity Education resources Lessons online Magnitudes	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School High School
Measuring the Size of an Earthquake — How the size of an earthquake is measured.
USGS	Magnitudes Locating Earthquakes Intensity	Info	General Audience
Men & Women of Seismology, The — biographies and photos of famous seismologists
USGS	History-Earthquakes, Seismology Careers People	Info	Middle School High School General Audience College
Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, The — A description of the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale.
USGS	Intensity	Info	General Audience
New Madrid Earthquakes 1811 - 1812 — Accounts of the large earthquakes that occurred in the New Madrid area in 1811 - 1812.
USGS	New Madrid Seismic Zone	Info	General Audience
Online Coloring Pages — Interactively color earthquake-related pictures
USGS	Basics	Interactive Graphics Fun & Games	Elementary school
Online Wordsearch Puzzles — Interactive wordsearch puzzles with earthquake-related words
USGS	Basics	Fun & Games Interactive	Elementary school
PBJ Fault (PDF) — demonstrate the different types of faults with a PBJ sandwich, and then eat it double-decker
USGS	Plate tectonics Lessons online Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Predicting Earthquakes — short overview
USGS	Prediction	Info	General Audience College High School
Protecting Your Family from Earthquakes — in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean
USGS & many other organizations	Preparedness & Response	Info	General Audience
Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - Central US edition — Earthquakes and preparedeness in the Central US
USGS	Maps Magnitudes Locations Locating Earthquakes Hazards Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Effects, Earthquake Earthquake facts Books Basics New Madrid Seismic Zone Preparedness & Response	Graphics Info	General Audience
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 & Response San Andreas Fault	Info Graphics	General Audience
Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - SCA edition — Earthquakes and preparedness in southern California
USGS & Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)	San Andreas Fault Preparedness & Response Maps Magnitudes Locations Locating Earthquakes Hazards Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Effects, Earthquake Earthquake facts Books Basics	Info Graphics	General Audience
Recommended Reading about Earthquakes for Kids and Adults — list of books
USGS	Books Basics	Info	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school
Richter Magnitude Scale, The — Description of the Richter magnitude scale.
USGS	Magnitudes	Info	General Audience
Rock'n on Shakey Ground (4MB PDF) — The basics of earthquake science written especially for the elementary school level.
USGS & Green Frog News	Basics	Info	Elementary school
San Andreas Fault at Wallace Creek — Interactive, 360 degree panorama of the San Andreas Fault. Aerial photos of the fault taken from a kite.
USGS	Crustal deformation Effects, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Field trips - virtual, real Geology Historic Earthquakes Photos, Earthquake San Andreas Fault	Graphics Interactive	Elementary school General Audience High School Middle School
San Andreas Fault, The — overview of the San Andreas Fault, online USGS general interest publication
USGS	Basics Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Historic Earthquakes History-Earthquakes, Seismology San Andreas Fault	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience College
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, Earthquakes	Lesson Plans	Elementary school Middle School
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
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
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 - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources Earth structure Plate tectonics	Lesson Plans	Middle School
Seismic Seiches — Description and history of seismic seiches.
USGS	Seismic Seiches	Info	General Audience
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
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
Southern California Earthquakes, Faults, Photos & Rupture Movies — all things "earthquake" in southern California
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) & USGS	Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Photos, Earthquake	Graphics Info	High School General Audience Elementary school College Middle School
Southern California Integrated GPS Network Education Module — excellent graphics, animations and activities
USGS & Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)	Plate tectonics GPS Education resources Basics	Lesson Plans Interactive Graphics	High School College
Table-Top Earthquakes — USGS Open-File Report 98-767 (online)
USGS	Education resources Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc.	Lesson Plans	High School College
Teacher's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area Geophysics Maps — USGS Open File Report 95-479 (online)
USGS	San Andreas Fault Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources Seismicity	Lesson Plans	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
This Dynamic Planet — World Map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Impact Craters, and Plate Tectonics
USGS	Plate tectonics	Info	General Audience
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 ( PDF version
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Historic Earthquakes Intensity Plate tectonics Tsunamis	Graphics Info	College High 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
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 Websites — compilation of websites that provide current tsunami information
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Understanding Earthquakes Makes for Messy Science — Earthquake processes typically occur tens of miles below the Earth's surface and over geologic time, away from direct observation. Earthquake science, in particular, is often subject to interpretation and bias.
USGS	Preparedness & Response	Info	General Audience
USGS Maps Booklet — online USGS general interest publication
USGS	Basics Maps	Info Graphics	Middle School High School College
USGS Maps: Earthquakes-Volcanoes-Landslides — Purchase maps based on earthquake, volcano, and landslide hazards
USGS	Plate tectonics Maps Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Earth structure Seismicity	Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
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 - SS, DS, Thrust, etc.	Info Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
What on Earth is Plate Tectonics? — excellent presentation with vivid graphics
USGS & U.S. National Park Service	Plate tectonics Earth structure	Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Where are the Fault Lines in the United States East of the Rocky Mountains? — Information on where the fault lines are in states east of the Rocky Mountains.
USGS	Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Hazards Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc.	Info	General Audience
Who Dunit? and the Law of Superposition (PDF) — solve a crime, and then use those same skills to understand the Law of Superposition (older layers of the earth on bottom) with a fun WhoDunit? investigation and then use your skills to solve a geological mystery
USGS	Trenching Paleoseismology Lessons online Geology Education resources Earth structure	Lesson Plans Graphics	Elementary school