New IRIS/USGS earthquake display
at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
Over the past five years, the IRIS Consortium and
the US Geological Survey Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory have
worked with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the American
Museum of Natural History, the Franklin Institute Science Museum,
the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and now the Smithsonian
Institution National Museum of Natural History to make real-time
global earthquake and ground-motion data available to the general
public through museum exhibits. The exhibits portray earthquakes
not as destructive events, but as signals of the geological forces
that build our mountains and shape our landscape. Accompanying handouts,
posters, and an interactive website allow visitors to continue monitoring
earthquakes at home and in the classroom, and to learn more about
earthquakes and Geoscience.
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