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100% Chance of an Earthquake — Earthquake statistics. | |||
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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. | |||
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7 Steps to an Earthquake Resilient Business (PDF) — How to prepare your business for an earthquake | |||
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A Comparison of Two Bay Area Earthquakes: 1989 v. 1906 — Investigate the shaking intensity and magnitude of these two earthquakes. | |||
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Animations for Earthquake Terms and Concepts — Flash animations illustrating basic earthquake terms and concepts. | |||
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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? | |||
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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 | |||
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Can It Happen Here? — Could a large damaging tsunami happen in the United States? | |||
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Can We Predict Earthquakes? PodCast — Scientist Mike Blanpied discusses the science of earthquake prediction. | |||
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Casualty (Fatality) Totals, A Note About — One-pager explaining why the numbers vary on different list. | |||
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Central & Eastern US Fact Sheets, See also — 2-page information sheets for a general audience | |||
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Chile (02/27/2010) Educational Slide Set — Educational slideset for the 02/27/2010 Chile Earthquake( Download PDF) | |||
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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. | |||
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Coloring Pages to Print — Earthquake-related coloring pages to print out and color | |||
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Cool Earthquake Facts — fascinating earthquake facts | |||
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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) | |||
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Determining the Depth of an Earthquake — brief discussion on depths of earthquakes | |||
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Discover Our Earth — Portal for teachers and students for learn the basics about earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, topography, and sea level changes. | |||
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Early History of Seismometry (to 1900), The — history of various instruments throughout the history of seismology | |||
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Earth's Crust, The — how thick is the Earth's crust? | |||
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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. | |||
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Earthquake 101 Powerpoint Slideshow Download — a complete PowerPoint show for the basics | |||
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Earthquake ABC: A Child's View of Earthquake Facts and Feelings — by kids for kids, with a special section for parents and teachers | |||
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Earthquake Booms, Seneca Guns, and Other Sounds — An examination of strange and unexplained sounds that are sometimes heard accompanying earthquakes. | |||
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Earthquake Facts & Earthquake Fantasy — Companion to "Earthquakes, Megaquakes, and the Movies" | |||
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Earthquake Hazards on the Island of Hawaii — summary of earthquake hazards in Hawaii | |||
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Earthquake Model — earthquake recurrence, size, and prediction demonstration instructions, brick & sandpaper model | |||
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Earthquake Monitoring — explore the history behind earthquake monitoring; list of additional readings and links also included | |||
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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. | |||
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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. | |||
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Earthquakes — general overview of earthquakes, online USGS general interest publication | |||
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Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics — Explains the theory of earthquakes and plate tectonics. | |||
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Earthquakes, MegaQuakes, and the Movies — discussion about facts versus fantasies | |||
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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. | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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Flinn-Engdahl Regions — description of regions used to identify locations of earthquakes world-wide | |||
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Focal Mechanisms — Basic explanation for what a focal mechanism is, and how to interpret them. | |||
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Groundwater Effects from Earthquakes — A description of the potential effects of earthquakes on groundwater and wells. | |||
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Hazards 101, Earthquake — The basics of how the USGS National Earthquake Hazard Maps are made. | |||
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High Quality Earthquake Animations — Simulations of earthquake ruptures that were run on the supercomputers at Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research | |||
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Human Wave (PDF) — learn about the motions of P & S waves with a fun participating exercise | |||
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Ideas for Activities Using Live Seismograms — ideas for how to use real-time earthquake information in the classroom | |||
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Investigating Earthquakes Through Regional Seismicity — excellent graphics, animations and activities | |||
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Kid's Earthquake Questions & Answers — kids' questions answered by scientists | |||
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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 | |||
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Late Night Musings of an Earthquake Seismologist — USGS Scientist Paul A. Reasenberg candidly discusses earthquake preparedness. | |||
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Listening to Earthquakes — music and earthquakes have something in common! | |||
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Magnitude / Intensity Comparison — Explains the difference between magnitude and intensity. | |||
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Magnitude versus Intensity Lesson (PDF) — classroom lesson to teach the difference between earthquake magnitude and earthquake intensities | |||
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Measuring the Size of an Earthquake — How the size of an earthquake is measured. | |||
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Men & Women of Seismology, The — biographies and photos of famous seismologists | |||
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Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, The — A description of the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. | |||
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New Madrid Earthquakes 1811 - 1812 — Accounts of the large earthquakes that occurred in the New Madrid area in 1811 - 1812. | |||
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Online Coloring Pages — Interactively color earthquake-related pictures | |||
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Online Wordsearch Puzzles — Interactive wordsearch puzzles with earthquake-related words | |||
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PBJ Fault (PDF) — demonstrate the different types of faults with a PBJ sandwich, and then eat it double-decker | |||
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Predicting Earthquakes — short overview | |||
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Protecting Your Family from Earthquakes — in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean | |||
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Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - Central US edition — Earthquakes and preparedeness in the Central US | |||
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Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - NCA edition — Earthquakes and preparedeness in northern California | |||
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Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - SCA edition — Earthquakes and preparedness in southern California | |||
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Recommended Reading about Earthquakes for Kids and Adults — list of books | |||
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Richter Magnitude Scale, The — Description of the Richter magnitude scale. | |||
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Rock'n on Shakey Ground (4MB PDF) — The basics of earthquake science written especially for the elementary school level. | |||
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San Andreas Fault at Wallace Creek — Interactive, 360 degree panorama of the San Andreas Fault. Aerial photos of the fault taken from a kite. | |||
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San Andreas Fault, The — overview of the San Andreas Fault, online USGS general interest publication | |||
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Schoolyard Geology — Online lesson plans with photos and images. Excellent geologic activities you can do anywhere! Education standards info included. | |||
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Science Explained, The — links to popular science articles about earthquake research | |||
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Science Fair Project Ideas — specific projects with directions and ideas | |||
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Science of Earthquakes, The — brief and basic earthquake science concepts | |||
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Sea-Floor Spreading and Subduction, How to Build a Model Illustrating — Three-dimensional, cut-and-paste paper model illustrating sea-floor spreading and subduction. | |||
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Seismic Seiches — Description and history of seismic seiches. | |||
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Seismographs: Keeping Track of Earthquakes — brief description on how seismographs work to locate earthquakes | |||
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Severity of an Earthquake, The — measuring earthquakes, online USGS general interest publication | |||
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Southern California Earthquakes, Faults, Photos & Rupture Movies — all things "earthquake" in southern California | |||
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Southern California Integrated GPS Network Education Module — excellent graphics, animations and activities | |||
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Table-Top Earthquakes — USGS Open-File Report 98-767 (online) | |||
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Teacher's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area Geophysics Maps — USGS Open File Report 95-479 (online) | |||
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This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics — excellent comprehensive overview of plate tectonics with excellent graphics, online USGS general interest publication | |||
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This Dynamic Planet — World Map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Impact Craters, and Plate Tectonics | |||
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Today in Earthquake History — what happened today in earthquake history | |||
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Tohoku, Japan 2011 M9.0 Educational Slides — Educational slides for the 2011 Tohoku,Japan M9.0 Earthquake ( PDF version | |||
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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. | |||
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Try It Yourself Calculator — How much bigger is a magnitude 8.7 earthquake than a magnitude 5.8 earthquake? | |||
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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. | |||
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USGS Maps Booklet — online USGS general interest publication | |||
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USGS Maps: Earthquakes-Volcanoes-Landslides — Purchase maps based on earthquake, volcano, and landslide hazards | |||
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Wallace Creek Interpretive Trail Guide — Interactive online trail guide to Wallace Creek site on the San Andreas Fault | |||
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What on Earth is Plate Tectonics? — excellent presentation with vivid graphics | |||
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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. | |||
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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 | |||
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