Description
Links to other resources for teaching seismology.
Audience
All Audiences
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Additional IRIS Resources
Locate an Earthquake Online!
This site allows you to enter user-defined data for display of up to 4
seismic stations as well as the and the radius of an arc to the
epicenter as calculated from an S minus P epicenter location method.
http://www.iris.edu/quakes/make_event_search_map.pl
US Geological Survey Sites
Earthquake Hazards Program
Latest earthquake information, hazards and preparedness, studying earthquakes, and related sites.
http://www.earthquake.usgs.gov
Locate an Earthquake
A tutorial on how earthquake epicenters are determined
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/more/eqlocation/
Plate Tectonics
The Dynamic Earth - the Story of Plate Tectonics
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
The Learning Web
Many resources for K-12 education.
http://www.usgs.gov/education
Albuquerque Seismological Lab
Provides a list of Educational Resources as well as data for USGS sites
around the world. (see the Live Internet Seismic Server!)
http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Education/index.htm
All Shook Up
Earthquakes for Kids
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/
Earthquake Magnitude and Intensity Scales
Including The Richter Magnitude Scale and The Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq4/severitygip.html
Earthquake hazard maps
Government and Academic Seismology Sites
Including current and past earthquakes, maps, and geologic information.
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/info/seismolinks.html
Other Sites
Rapid Earthquake Viewer (REV)
Gives you access to data from seismograph stations around the world.
http://rev.seis.sc.edu/
UNAVCO Education and Outreach
Educational materials and activities related to measuring Earth deformation, including access to data
http://www.unavco.org/edu_outreach/edu_outreach.html
EarthScope Education and Outreach
Information and activities related to a study of the structure and dynamics of North America
http://www.earthscope.org/index.php/es_eno
Stop Disasters!
A hazard mitigation and disaster simulation game from UN/ISDR.
http://www.stopdisastersgame.org
FEMA for Teachers
http://www.fema.gov/kids/teacher.htm
University of Washington
Links to a wide variety of seismology-related websites where original
seismic data or seismic research information is available.
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html
Seismology: Resources for Teachers
Reference information, maps, videotapes, slide sets, hardware/software, seismographs, databases from Purdue University.
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/k-12/seismology_resources.html
Seismological Society of America
An international association devoted to the advancement of earthquake science.
http://www.seismosoc.org/
Boston College
Alan Kafka of Boston College has a great page with lots Science Education links.
http://www2.bc.edu/~kafka/
Create Your Own Earthquake
From University of Arizona.
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/tools/seismo
Plate Tectonics
Information on Plate Tectonics CD-ROM by Tasa.
http://www.tasagraphicarts.com
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country
Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country online from SCEC.
http://www.earthquakecountry.info/roots/
University of California, Berkeley
http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/seismo
Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research
http://mceer.buffalo.edu/default.asp
Public Seismic Network (PSN)
Bathymetry Maps
Online ocean bathymetry maps for comparing with plate boundaries and earthquake epicenter maps from NOAA.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/relief.html
National Geophysical Data Center
Earth's topography and seismicity images from the National Geophysical Data Center.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov
California Institute of Technology
Seismology Laboratory home page.
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/seismo/seismo.page.html
Virtual Earthquake
Brought to you by the Electronic Desktop Program and California State University, Los Angeles
http://www.sciencecourseware.com/eec/Earthquake/
Geological Society of America
Education and teacher resources
http://www.geosociety.org/educate
CERI at the University of Memphis
Plots central US earthquakes on an interactive map in near-real time
http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/
Earthquake Education and Resources
New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources at New Mexico Tech
http://tremor.nmt.edu
UpSeis
An informative website which provides an overview on seismology,
seismic waves, magnitude scales and more. Maintained by the Geology
Department at Michigan Technological University
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/index.html
Tsunami Sites
PBS site
Includes animations and audio from the Savage Earth series!
http://www.wnet.org/savageearth/tsunami/index.html
NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
University of Washington
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/
