Earthquake Hazards

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  1. Earthquake Damage slide show (powerpoint 4.5MB) or Adobe Reader version pdf (1.5MB)

  2. Maps of Recent Earthquake Activity in California-Nevada

  3. All Earthquakes in California-Nevada

  4. Revealing a Fault Plane with Hypocenters

  5. What is Seismology?

  6. Types of Seismic Waves

  7. Wave Animations

  8. Seismic Wave Demonstrations and Animations

  9. Earthquakes along the Hayward Fault

  10. Caltech Woodframe Project

  11. Savage Earth Animation

  12. 1989 Loma Prieta vs. 1906 San Francisco

  13. Comparing Soils

          Scroll down to section 2 where the text begins: "On October 17, 1989…… and read the first two paragraphs.

  14. Slides: USGS Photo Library, Earthquakes section and select Loma Prieta California Earthuake 1989
    The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake - Selected Photographs

  15. What is Soil Liquefaction?

  16. Engineering for Earthquakes

          Click on Engineering for Earthquakes

  17. 1906 Earthquake Scenario

  18. What's the Probability?

  19. How do scientists determine earthquake probabilities?

  20. 24 Hour Forecast

  21. Earthquake Exercises

  22. Plate Tectonics Hazard 4

 

EXTRA: Rapid Earthquake Viewer Lessons sites:

  1. Rapid Earthquake Viewer (REV)

  2. List of all stations in REV

 

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