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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
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