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Earthquakes Around the World (In the past week)

http://www.speakeasy.org/~endico/maps/usgs.html

Use to locate and identify earthquakes around the world in the past week.

Clicking the plotted points on the map will provide students with further information about specific earthquakes by taking them to information pages that are part of the following site:

USGA Earthquakes Hazard Program

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/nn00162500.htm

This site provides activities and information relating to earthquakes around the world.

Earth Like a Puzzle:

http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/voyager/earth_puzzle

Imagine the continents as giant puzzle pieces. Arrange the plates of the earth to see how well their coastlines fit together.

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FEMA for KIDS

http://www.fema.gov/kids/

The Earthquake Shake

http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/quakes/ (easy to understand)

Understanding Earthquakes

http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/understanding/

Understanding Longitude/Latitude (A great screen video tutorial) http://www.sciencecourseware.com/eec/Earthquake/EpicenterMagnitude/Tutorials/LL.swf

The World Wide Earthquake Locator

http://tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk/local-bin/quakes/mapscript/home.pl

PBS Predicting Earthquakes

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/earthquake/index.html

Life Along the Faultline (eXploratorium)

http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/index.html

SAVAGE EARTH Online

MAPS

Google Map-Last 20 earthquakes in the US

http://www.losangelesearthquakes.com/?national=1

Plate Map (NASA) nice!

http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/dtam/data/ftp/gtam.gif

Tectonic Activity Map (NASA)

http://core2.gsfc.nasa.gov/dtam/data/ftp/dtam.jpg

Various Maps showing seismic activity from various off-earth positions (e.g. polar, global)

http://core2.gsfc.nasa.gov/dtam/seismic/

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