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Web Sites
A Chronicle of Important Historical Earthquakes
This site contains chronicals of historic earthquakes that significantly changed the way scientists viewed the earth and earthquakes. Each event is unique in how it helped us better understand our world.
BGS Earthquake Page
Hosted by Global Seismology and Geomagnetism Group of British Geologic Survey.
Causes and Ground Effects of Earthquakes Shaking
A class note.
Causes or Sources of Earthquake Damage
National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering, UC, Berkeley.
Seismology
A web site contains earthquake background, earthquake disasters, seismicity maps, earthquake images.
Earthquake-Proof Buildings
Online class from Discovery.com for Grades 6-8.
Earthquakes: Faults and Seismic Waves
A lecture note.
Earthquakes: Recordings, Locating, Size and Destruction
A lecture note.
Introduction to Earthquake Engineering
Prepared by students of University of Bristol.
The Earthquake Museum
Find out why the ground shakes, how scientists study quakes, what you can do to prepare for earthquakes, great quakes of the past and you can share your earthquake stories.
USGS Earthquakes for Kids
Fun and educational activities and information.
Understanding Earthquakes
Quiz, earthquake locations on a rotang globe and Java animation on how earthquakes occur.
Virtual Earthquake
An interactive Web-based program designed to introduce you to the concepts of how an earthquake.
Virtual Earthquake
Virtual Earthquake is an interactive Web-based program designed to introduce you to the concepts of how an earthquake EPICENTER is located and how the RICHTER MAGNITUDE of an earthquake is determined.
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Technical Articles
About Earthquake
An advanced tutorial on the mechanism of earthquake and its effects.
Britannica: Earthquake
Encyclopedia Britannica article: effects, causes and prediction of earthquakes.
Earthquake
Encarta online.
Earthquake ABC
Parent's guide to earthquake education.
Earthquake ABCs
An article about earthquake from SCEC.
Earthquake Basics
Lessons to students about earthquake mechanism and hazards reduction.
Implications for Earthquake Risk Reduction in the United States from the Kocaeli, Turkey, Earthquake of August 17, 1999
A USGS report (6MB PDF file).
Simulation of Strong Earthquake Motion by Explosions-experiments at the Lyaur Testing Range in Tajikistan
Strong motion data of 10 controlled explosion experiments conducted in 1977 at the Lyaur testing range in the Republic of Tajikistan are revisited.
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