Web Resources for Teachers

General information, activities, diagrams, animations, tutorials, that may be useful in the classroom.
All links current as of January 22, 2000

  1. Understanding Earthquakes: http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/understanding/

    2. Interactive, with a short quiz, animations, information, other links. Good site, not technical.
     
  2. Exploratorium Learning Studio: Earthquakes http://www.exploratorium.edu/ls/pathfinders/earthquakes/index.html

    3. Very good site. Too much here to summarize. Check it out.
     
  3. Geology Labs On-line: http://vcourseware1.calstatela.edu/GeoLabs/

    4. Virtual Earthquake - a very neat interactive simulation in which students locate the epicenter of an earthquake. Also Virtual Dating - radioactive dating of materials.
     
  4. Nevada Seismological Laboratory - About Earthquakes http://www.seismo.unr.edu/htdocs/abouteq/html

    5. Animations, images, text, all work to make this a site with lots of useful information for students. Plate Tectonics, Seismic Waves, Richter Magnitude, others all very good.
     
  5. USGS Earthquake Information: Reducing Hazards: http://quake.usgs.gov/

    6. Lots of information, links to other sites of interest.
     
  6. Earth view Explorer: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/EV/EarthViewHome.html

    7. Project at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - still under construction at last visit but looks like this site has a lot of potential for use by teachers. Keep an eye on it.
     
  7. Savage Earth: http://www.wnet.org/savageearth/   Contains material from a series of TV programs, "Savage Earth", produced by WNET New York. Excellent graphics, animations, etc. Requires some plug-ins to view. Very nice. Take a look at this.
  8. NOAA National Geophysical Data Center Geologic Hazards Photos http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/fliers/se-0801.shtml#eqslides

    9. Excellent images of earthquake damage, faults, other geologic hazards. Images may be downloaded or purchased in slide sets or on CD-Rom.
     
  9. USGS Mississippi Valley- "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/FactSheets/NewMadrid/

    10. Contains a nice image showing the areas affected by major earthquakes in the Eastern and Western regions of the U.S. Show this to your students. Very enlightening!
  10. USGS Thickness of the Earth's Crust: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/study/CrustalStructure    A very nice downloadable contour map showing the thickness of the Earth's crust.
  1. USGS Sounds of earthquakes http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/more/listen/index.html May be of interest to some. Downloadable sound files of earthquake frequencies converted to audible frequency range.
  1. USGS Applications of earthquake detection http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/FactSheets/Gunshots/

    2. A very interesting application of the technology used to record earthquakes modified to fight crime.
     
  2. Nature Debate: Is earthquake prediction possible?

    3. http://helix.nature.com/debates/earthquake/equake_contents.html
    Discussions among numerous geophysicists about prediction of earthquakes. May be useful reference for students. Some images.
     
  3. Riverdeep Interactive Learning - EarthPulse Center: http://www.riverdeep.net/

    4. This is a software company that has acquired LOGAL Software, a company that produces math and science simulation programs for middle school, high school, and college.. There are free activities available after registration. Check out the Earthquake Lab in the EarthPulse Center.
     
     
  4. The Indiana PEPP Homepage: http://www.indiana.edu/~pepp/   Homepage for the PEPP instrument Center and Indiana PEPP. Information on Data acquisition program, SCREAM.  Data analysis Software; SWAP, WINQUAKE, instructions and lessons by PEPP teachers.  A good low cost outdoor vault design. Links on Earthquakes, volcanoes and more here.

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  5. The Princeton PEPP Homepage:  http://lasker.princeton.edu/pepp.shtml

    6. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Princeton Earth Physics Program and how to become a PEPP school. Earthquake data analysis programs, earthquake data acquisition programs, teaching resources and more!
     
  6. List of recent earthquakes from the USGS

    7. http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html
     
  7. Complete earthquake listing for the last 3 weeks

    8. ftp://ghtftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/weekly/qedevents.txt
     
  8. Global map of recent earthquakes

    9. http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/current/world.html
     
  9. Map of recent earthquakes in the US

    10. http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/current/usa.html
     
  10. Global map of recent earthquakes that is updated every 30 minutes: Visit this site and the next one often!

    11. http://www.iris.washington.edu/seismic/60_2040_1_8.html
     
  11. The IRIS education and outreach homepage.

    12. http://www.iris.washington.edu/EandO/
     
  12. The Public Seismic Network This site is full of great resources, a must see!

    13. http://psn.quake.net/
     
  13. The Southern California Earthquake Data Center Homepage. Another great place to find just about everything

    14. http://www.scecdc.scec.org/