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Plate Tectonics/Earthquakes
Most if not all the links below are courtesy of Yahoo!
- ABC's of Plate Tectonics
- Active Tectonics
- Central Washington
University GPS Geodesy - measurements of tectonic plate motion using GPS in the
Pacific Northwest. Includes information about PANGA, the Pacific Northwest Geodetic Array
collaborative project.
- Big Trouble
In Earthquake Country - use on-line earthquake hazard maps and other relevant
geological information to assess hazards to life and property associated with hypothetical
earthquakes of various magnitudes.
- British
Columbia Earthquake Resources
- Discovery Channel:
Earthquake! Waiting for the Big One Along the San Andreas Fault - daily dispatches,
video, audio, and more.
- Earthquakes and Plate
Tectonics - the USGS National Earthquake Information Center explains how they're
connected.
- Earthquake Damage Estimation Manual
- manual to estimate earthquake damage including soil, buildings collapse, deaths,
injured, fire, etc.
- Earthquake
Information from the USGS in Menlo Park, CA - daily and weekly quake reports,
geophysical information on earthquakes, and other background information.
- Earthquake
Maps and Reports
- EarthWaves -
provides information on earth changes including earthquakes, volcanoes, ozone depletion,
and predictions of future earth change events.
- Fact
Sheet: Earthquakes - identifying potential hazards ahead of time and advance planning
can reduce the dangers of serious injury or loss of life from an earthquake. From the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
- Global
Earthquake Response Center
- GPS Time Series - measurements
made with the Global Positioning System are sensitive enough to detect motion of the
Earth's tectonic plates.
- Introduction
to Plate Tectonics
- Lithoprobe Seismic Atlas of Canada
- View deep crustal seismic data from across Canada.
- Memento
Mori - an interface to the earth. This java applet displays streaming seismographic
data measured continuously from the Hayward Fault near the University of California at
Berkeley.
- New Mexico Bureau of
Mines Earthquake Education - information, links, and resources about earthquakes.
- North Idaho Seismic Network - risk
and history of earthquakes in Idaho, earthquake basics, damage pictures, and more.
- Pacific Seismicity Theme Page -
ocean seismicity from hydroacoustic monitoring.
- PALEOMAP Project
- view the Earth in paleogeographic maps as it has changed through time as a result of
plate tectonics and continental drift.
- Plate
Tectonics - lesson covering the chemical and physical layers of the Earth, historical
development of the theory, and descriptions of the location and types of plate boundaries.
- Plate Tectonics [geocities.com]
- students' site providing basic views, including some in-depth terms and facts.
- Plate
Tectonics Is Expansion Tectonics - scientific discourse on the theory of Expansion
Tectonics courtesy of Karl W. Luckert.
- Prototype
TriNet Peak Ground Motion Maps - rapid-response peak ground acceleration and velocity
maps prepared for a diverse audience.
- Relative Plate Motion
Calculator (NUVEL-1A) - finds the velocity and motion direction of the relatively
moving plate against the relatively fixed plate.
- San Andreas
Fault Map - cartography project.
- San
Andreas Fault and the Bay Area - images and general information.
- San Andreas Fault Field Trip
- pictures and commentary.
- San
Andreas Fault, The - USGS publication.
- Strong Motion
Database - fast and easy access to earthquake strong ground motion records.
- Syzygy -
earthquake newsletter.
- Tectonic Evolution with Weldon
Beauchamp - tectonic evolution of the Atlas Mountains, North Africa.
- Tectonic Plate Motion - the focus
is on the NASA/GSFC Analysis Group results from SLR.
- Tectonics
of the Eurasian Plate - generalized overview on the convergent, divergent and
transform margins.
- Tectonophysics - International
Journal of Geotectonics and the Geology and Physics of the Interior of the Earth
- This Dynamic Earth: The Story
of Plate Tectonics - complete text and figures from this book published by the U.S.
Geological Survey.
- TriNet - the
system of sensors, recorders, and computers that is used to monitor earthquakes in
Southern California.
- Understanding Earthquakes -
contains general interest earthquake information.
- USGS National
Earthquake Information Center - general information on global seismicity including
current earthquake information.
- Virtual
Earthquake - an interactive site designed to introduce you to the concepts of how an
earthquake epicenter is located and how the Richter magnitude of an earthquake is
determined.
- Zhaobo's Wavelet Seismic
Inversion Lab
Responsible Government Official:
NASA's
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