Earthquakes Related Links on the WWW

General Information and much more on Earthquakes

  • UW Seismology&Earthquake Information
  • Steve Malone's SeismoSurfing, University of Washington
  • IRIS Education and Outreach, Cool Links to: Seismic Monitor and Create Your Own Seismicity Map 

    • Theory Behind Earthquakes

  • Snell's Law.
  • Demonstrations of Geophysical Principles by Jeffrey S. Barker.
  • Animations illustrating simple wave propagation by Jeffrey S. Barker. 

    • Pacific Northwest Earthquakes

  • Earthauake Hazards    USGS page on earthquake hazards of the Pacific Northwest.
  • Pacific Northwest United States Sesmicity for the past 30 days from the University of Washington.
  • The World-Wide Earthquake Locator is an interface developed by Bruce Gittings of the Department of Geography at the University of Edinburgh.

    • Recent Earthquakes

  • World Sesmicity for the past 7, 30 and 365 days (click on "Pre-Assembled Event Information").
  • Pacific Northwest United States Sesmicity for the past 30 days from the University of Washington.
  • The World-Wide Earthquake Locator is an interface developed by Bruce Gittings of the Department of Geography at the University of Edinburgh.

    • Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Volcanoes Related Links

  • USGS Publications on the WEB   General interest publications on earthquakes, volcanos, glacieers etc.
  • Body of the Earth, Northwestern University
  • Geophysics and Geotectonics, GEOL 388, Cornell University
  • This Dynamic Earth, USGS
  • Interesting reserach projects and links, University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
  • Earth , University of Arizona (good place to start exploring the Earth)
  • Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes, University of Nevada, Reno
  • Richter Magnitude, University of Nevada, Reno

    • Specific Earthquakes

  • Postseismic Deformation Following the 1992 Landers Earthquake  Landers, California, USA
  • Slip Distribution of the 1992 Landers Earthquake and Its Implications for Earthquake Source Mechanics   Landers, California, USA

    • More about Earthquakes

  • List of books about Earthquakes, University of Nevada, Reno.
  • FAQ about Earthquakes, NCEER at State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
  • Virtual Erthquake, California State University, Los Angeles.
  • Axial Seamount Volcanic Event on Juan de Fuca Ridge NOAA, USA.
  • PEPP Princeton Earth Physics Project.

    • Useful tools

  • Online Map Creation using GMTby Martin Weinelt at GEOMAR, Germany. 

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