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100% Chance of an Earthquake — Earthquake statistics.
USGS
  • Statistics
  • Prediction
  • Basics
  • Info
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • Elementary school
  • College

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

Digital Online Geology - Earthquakes — Online version of "Earthquakes" by Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, and Dennis Tasa. This informative chapter about earthquakes has images, text, quizzes, and narrated animations explaining what happens when earthquakes occur.
TASA Graphic Arts
  • Basics
  • Books
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc.
  • Intensity
  • Locating Earthquakes
  • Locations
  • Magnitudes
  • Plate tectonics
  • Prediction
  • Seismic waves
  • Shaking
  • Graphics
  • Info
  • Lesson Plans
  • College
  • High School

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 Prediction Information — short overview
University of Washington
  • Prediction
  • Info
  • General Audience
  • High School
  • College

Earthquake Prediction, Societal Implications — technical paper
journal Reviews of Geophysics
  • Prediction
  • Info
  • College
  • 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 by Bruce A. Bolt Online Companion — links related to subjects covered in book
W.H. Freeman & Co.
  • Basics
  • Books
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring
  • Magnitudes
  • Plate tectonics
  • Prediction
  • Tsunamis
  • Info
  • College

Earthquakes Cannot Be Predicted — technical paper
journal Science
  • Prediction
  • Info
  • College
  • 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

Is the reliable prediction of individual earthquakes a realistic scientific goal? — Seven-week debate involving many authors and their views
journal of Nature
  • Prediction
  • Info
  • College
  • General Audience

Living in Earthquake Country-Teaching Box — Explores how and why earthquakes cause damage, seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides, liquefaction, or structural failure.
DLESE
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • Hazards
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Education resources
  • Intensity
  • Lessons online
  • Magnitudes
  • Prediction
  • Seismic waves
  • Societal Effects
  • Graphics
  • Info
  • Lesson Plans
  • Middle School
  • High School

Papers from an NAS Colloquium on "Earthquake Prediction: The Scientific Challenge" — excellent collection of downloadable papers
National Academy of Sciences
  • Prediction
  • Info
  • College
  • General Audience

Predicting Earthquakes — short overview
USGS
  • Prediction
  • Info
  • General Audience
  • College
  • High School

Savage Earth, The — slick presentation of the earthquake basics with great graphics and animations
PBS
  • Basics
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc.
  • Prediction
  • Seismic waves
  • Tsunamis
  • Graphics
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

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

The Parkfield Experiment — attempting to predict a Parkfield, CA earthquake
USGS
  • Prediction
  • Parkfield
  • Info
  • Graphics
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

Understanding Quakes — description, photos, and graphics of earthquake basics and effects of earthquakes in Turkey
The Why Files
  • Basics
  • Damage from Earthquakes
  • Deaths from Earthquakes
  • Effects, Earthquake
  • Engineering, Earthquake
  • Photos, Earthquake
  • Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes
  • Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc.
  • Hazards
  • Historic Earthquakes
  • History-Earthquakes, Seismology
  • Maps
  • Plate tectonics
  • Prediction
  • Seismic waves
  • Info
  • Graphics
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • General Audience
  • College

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