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| Title | Resource Type | Audience | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wells, Nevada Earthquake Teachable Moment (external) | Presentation | Undergraduate | A PowerPoint with slides on Basin and Range tectonics and science results about the earthquake. |
| Utah Mine Collapse Teachable Moment (external) | Presentation | Undergraduate | Text and PowerPoint using the Utah mine collapse to teach focal mechanisms. |
| The History of Seismology | Poster | All Audiences | Depicting original sketches, photographs and colorful new imagery, this poster captures the major milestones of the development in the field of seismology. Seismology's rich history begins with Robert Hooke's 1676 paper titled "True Theory of Elasticity or Springness" and continues through the 1830 discovery of P and S waves, the 1930's discovery of the inner core by Inge Lehman, and includes recent innovations such as shake maps, real-time collections of maps depicting shaking intensity within seconds of an earthquake. |
| The 10.5 Teachable Moment | Activity | All Audiences | 1. Students will be able to describe earthquake magnitude. 2. Students will b able to explain major factors that contribute to the amount energy released from an earthquake. 3. Students will be able to explain the likelihood of a mega quake like 10.5 "under the objectives column" and 45 minutes under the time heading. |
| Sumatra Earthquake Links | Other | All Audiences | Links to resources on the Sumatra-Andaman Islands Earthquake. |
| Sumatra - Andaman Island Earthquake | Poster | All Audiences | This assembly of seismograms displays the vertical movement of the Earth's surface due to seismic waves generated by the earthquake. The seismograms are plotted with respect to time since the start of the earthquake on the horizontal axis and are sorted vertically according to distance from the epicenter in degrees. |
| SeisMac Activity I | Activity | All Audiences | In this activity, students will use SeisMac to kinesthetically explore the "meaning" of three component seismic data. |
| SeisMac Activity 2 | Activity | All Audiences | In this activity, students will use SeisMac, or another three component accelerometer to examine their assumptions about how 'hard" the ground shakes during an earthquake. |
| Redefining an Earthquake v1.2 | Activity | Undergraduate | A short activity which demonstrates how an earthquake works. |
| Prof. Larry Braile’s Links (external) | All Audiences | Wide range of earthquake related topics. | |
| Past Images of the Week | Other | All Audiences | Photos related to seismology. |
| Introduction to Spectral Analysis and Matlab | Activity | Undergraduate | The objective of this lab is to explore the relationship between the time domain and the frequency domain using MATLAB. You will first look at pure sine waves as a function of time and their representation in the frequency domain, and then examine some earthquake data. Created By John Taber, IRIS Consortium (taber@iris.edu) |
| GMT Tutorial | Activity | Undergraduate | This tutorial guides users through GMT to create a simple map of the Socorro, NM area. GMT is available from http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu Author: Andy Goodliffe, U. of Alabama (amg@ua.edu) |
| Global Seismographic Network | Poster | All Audiences | The Global Seismographic Network (GSN) consists of more than 125 GSN stations located around the world with near-uniform spacing - from the South Pole to Siberia, and from the Amazon Basin to the seafloor of the Northeast Pacific Ocean. This multi-use facility provides data for scientific research, education, earthquake hazard mitigation, tsunami warning, and the international monitoring system for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. In addition, real-time GSN data are broadcast to museum displays that are seen by over 10 million visitors each year. |
| Fault Motion Animations | Animation | All Audiences | These animations are very elementary examples of fault motion intended for simple demonstrations. For more about faults see the NOAA slide show and information page - a rich source of images and textual information. |
| Exploring the Earth Using Seismology | Poster | All Audiences | Earthquakes create seismic waves that travel through the Earth. By analyzing these seismic waves, seismologists can explore the Earth's deep interior. |
| Educational Links | Other | All Audiences | Links to other resources for teaching seismology. |
| EarthScope and Arizona Video (external) | Video | All Audiences | A short video about EarthScope produced by an Arizona PBS station. |
| Earthquake Wave Visualizations (external) | Animation | All Audiences | Visualizations by Chuck Ammon use real data from earthquakes to show how seismic waves travel away from an earthquake. |
| Earthmodes | Animation | All Audiences | Animations showing the earth's vibrations after a large earthquake. |
| Developing arguments about earthquakes v2.0 | Activity | All Audiences | 1. Explain earthquakes as a part of the natural Earth System 2. Describe the global trends for earthquake occurrence and size 3. Students will be able to interpret a Gutenberg Richter plot (Frequency vs Magnitude) 4. Critically analyze data generated by the Earthquake Machine and use the data to develop a position 5. Describe the role sharing of science results with peers plays an important part of the science process. |
| Describing an event for news reports - SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE May 12, 2008 | Activity | Undergraduate | This pdf file contains all the necessary information required for students to make an assessment of a recent earthquake and prepare to discuss the event with the news media. Author: Seth Stein, Northwestern University (seth@earth.northwestern.edu) |
| BOSS Lite - Building Resonance | Demonstration | All Audiences | Describe the impact of building resonance when assessing Earthquake Hazards |
| A Century of Earthquakes | Poster | All Audiences | On April 18, 1906 a powerful earthquake shook San Francisco leading to fires that devastated the city. That earthquake brought seismology into the forefront as a science in the U.S. This poster outlines the lessons learned from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and discusses 100 years of large earthquakes, including the Sumatra earthquake that caused the devastating tsunami. |
