Background resources for teachers
On-line resources and lessons that use them
Additional resources of interest

Background resources for teachers:

Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-000-356
Provides information on plate movement and the production of earthquakes.
Use in a lesson

Life Along the Faultline
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-000-552
Provides great photos and accompanying information of the 1906 and Loma Prieta earthquakes in San Francisco.
Use in a lesson

Earthquake Hazards Program: Visual Glossary
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-804
A comprehensive source for all earthquake terms.
Use in a lesson

Map of faults for California
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-805
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Index to the contiguous 48 states
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-806
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Undergraduate Engineering Review
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-807
An article at theat the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides detailed information on the cyclic nature of earthquakes.
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Parkfield Experiment
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-808
This site describes the scientific background for the experiment, including the tectonic setting at Parkfield, CA, the historical earthquake activity on this section of the San Andreas fault, the monitoring and data collecting activities currently being carried out, and plans for future research.
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Parkfield: Earthquake Prediction: A Brief History
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-809
Gives historical background information on Parkfield, CA where six earthquakes have repeated in almost the same spot since 1857.
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Rating the Size of Earthquakes
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-006-735
Provides a short history of earthquake magnitude and Charles Richter.
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Magnitude vs. Intensity
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-006-735
Describes magnitude and intensity.
Use in a lesson

What is Richter Magnitude?
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-001-600
Describes magnitude and intensity in detail.
Use in a lesson

Soil Liquefaction
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-812
Excellent information about liquefaction
Use in a lesson

Landslides: Risky Business
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-830
Geotimes article that discusses earthquake-induced landslides.
Use in a lesson

Slope failures triggered by the 23 October 2004 earthquakes in Niigata Prefecture, Japan
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=TBOXR-000-000-000-103
Nice photos of startlingly large landslides that occurred after the 1999 ChiChi earthquake.
Use in a lesson

How do scientists determine earthquake probabilities?
http://quake.usgs.gov/~dalessio/DLESE/EQ/scenarios_aboutprobabilities.html
Background information about how probabilities are calculated.
Use in a lesson

Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-814
T he modified Mercalli Intensity Scale used to describe shaking intensity.
Use in a lesson

On-line resources and lessons that use them:

Prerequisite Resource: Earthquakes As Evidence For Plate Tectonics
http://www.teachingboxes.org/jsp/teachingboxes/plateTectonics/earthquakes/sequence/lesson2_activity1.jsp
Provides a brief review of plate boundaries and plate movement.

Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-000-356
Provides information on plate movement and the production of earthquakes.
Use in a lesson

Life Along the Faultline
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-000-552
Provides great photos and accompanying information of the 1906 and Loma Prieta earthquakes in San Francisco.
Use in a lesson

Earthquake Image Glossary
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/image_glossary/
A comprehensive source for all earthquake terms.
Use in a lesson

Earthquake Damage Slide Show
http://teachingboxes.org/earthquakes/lessons/lesson1_supplement/earthquakeDamage.ppt
http://teachingboxes.org/earthquakes/lessons/lesson1_supplement/earthquakeDamage.pdf
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A complete map of faults for California
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-805
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An index to earthquakes in the contiguous 48 states
http://earthquakes.usgs.gov/qfaults/usmap.html
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Latitude and Longitude Review Lesson
http://www.teachingboxes.org/jsp/teachingboxes/plateTectonics/prerequisites/index.jsp
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All Earthquakes in California-Nevada
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-816
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Maps of Recent Earthquake Activity in California-Nevada
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-817
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Revealing a Fault Plane with Hypocenters
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-006-676
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Undergraduate Engineering Review
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-807
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Parkfield Experiment
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-808
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Parkfield: Earthquake Prediction: A Brief History
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-809
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Why do Earthquakes Happen?
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-818
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Parkfield: Earthquake History
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-819
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Parkfield: Earthquake Prediction: A Brief History
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-809
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Graphing Template
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=TBOXR-000-000-000-104
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Finished Example using the graphing template
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=TBOXR-000-000-000-105
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Picture of evidence of slip
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=TBOXR-000-000-000-107
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Recurrence Interval
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-831
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Answer Key
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=TBOXR-000-000-000-106
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Caltech Woodframe Project
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-832
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Savage Earth Animation
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/earthquakes/main.html
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Earthquakes Laboratory
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~rmellors/lab8/l8maineq.htm#rwave
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Savage Earth Animation
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=SERC-NAGT-000-000-000-675
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The Types of Seismic Waves
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-834
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Seismic Wave Demonstrations and Animations
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-835
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Earthquakes Laboratory
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~rmellors/lab8/l8maineq.htm#rwave
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Earthquake Effects & Experiences
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=TBOXR-000-000-000-111
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Earthquakes Along the Hayward Fault
http://www.teachingboxes.org/earthquakes/resources/haywardFaultAnimations.jsp
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Seismic Waves (a software program-(4.8MB) See caution)
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=TBOXR-000-000-000-109
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Alan Jones' website
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=SERC-NAGT-000-000-000-774
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Rating the Size of Earthquakes
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-006-735
Provides a short history of earthquake magnitude and Charles Richter.
Use in a lesson

Magnitude vs. Intensity
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-006-735
Describes magnitude and intensity.
Use in a lesson

What is Richter Magnitude?
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-001-600
Describes magnitude and intensity in detail.
Use in a lesson

Comparison of 1906 and 1989 earthquakes
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/~dalessio/DLESE/compare.html
Use in a lesson

Seismological Exercises
http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol204/eqexercises.htm
Use in a lesson

Seismological Exercises
http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol204/eqexercises.htm
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How Geologic Materials Affect Shaking Intensity
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-009-323
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Comparison of 1906 and 1989 earthquakes
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/~dalessio/DLESE/compare.html
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Earthquake Engineering Online Archive: Santa Rosa City Hall after 1906 Earthquake
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-878
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USGS Photo Archive: San Francisco City Hall after 1906 Earthquake
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-879
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USGS Photo Archive: Marin County after 1906 Earthquake
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-880
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USGS Photo Archive: Collapsed Apartment Building
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-009-324
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Earthquake Engineering Online Archive: San Francisco Waterfront
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-882
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USGS Photo Library, Earthquakes section
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-009-325 and select Loma Prieta California Earthuake 1989
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The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake - Selected Photographs
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-009-326
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Measuring Earthquakes
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=EARTHQUAKE-000-000-012-241
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Contemporary Newspaper Accounts of Mississippi Valley Earthquakes of 1811-1812
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-894
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Blank intensity map: New Madrid Earthquake
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-895
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Blank intensity map: Southern California
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=TBOXR-000-000-000-112
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Answers: New Madrid Earthquake
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=TBOXR-000-000-000-139
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Answers: Southern California
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=TBOXR-000-000-000-116
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Physiographic map: New Madrid Earthquake
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/distance/gg101/Programs/program1 Introduction/physio.html
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Physiographic map: Southern California
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-897
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Isoseismal Maps: Example 1
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-898
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Isoseismal Maps: Example 2
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-899
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Isoseismal Maps: Example 3
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~geodept/earthquakes/PGisomap.gif
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Did You Feel It?
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-001-773
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Soil Liquefaction
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-812
Excellent information about liquefaction
Use in a lesson

Landslides: Risky Business
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-830
Geotimes article that discusses earthquake-induced landslides.
Use in a lesson

Slope failures triggered by the 23 October 2004 earthquakes in Niigata Prefecture, Japan
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=TBOXR-000-000-000-103
Nice photos of startlingly large landslides that occurred after the 1999 ChiChi earthquake.
Use in a lesson

Landslides
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-002-229
Use in a lesson

Earth Systems Inquiry Activity
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-901
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Victoria, Canada
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-902
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Washington State
ftp://198.187.3.44/geology/hazards/hmgp/liquefaction_suscep_nehrp_site_class_maps
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Southern California
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-908
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San Francisco Bay Area 1
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-009-349
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San Francisco Bay Area 2
http://quake.usgs.gov/~dalessio/DLESE/EQ/liquefaction.html
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Faultline: Liquifaction
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-910
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What is Soil Liquefaction?
http://www.ce.washington.edu/~liquefaction/html/what/what1.html
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Engineering for Earthquakes
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-009-350
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How do scientists determine earthquake probabilities?
http://quake.usgs.gov/~dalessio/DLESE/EQ/scenarios_aboutprobabilities.html
Background information about how probabilities are calculated.
Use in a lesson

Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale
http://www.teachingboxes.org/catalog.jsp?id=DLESE-000-000-008-814
T he modified Mercalli Intensity Scale used to describe shaking intensity.
Use in a lesson

What's the Probability?
http://quake.usgs.gov/~dalessio/DLESE/EQ/scenarios.html
Use in a lesson

1906 Scenario Earthquake Scenario
http://quake.usgs.gov/~dalessio/DLESE/EQ/index.html
Use in a lesson

Four Earthquake Scenarios
http://quake.usgs.gov/~dalessio/DLESE/EQ/scenarios_about.html
Use in a lesson

More resources of interest (not currently used in a lesson)

Three seismogram components
http://www.teachingboxes.org/earthquakes/resources/3components.mov
A simple animation illustrating the movement and corresponding seismographic recording of three measurable components of an earthquake. (Requires Apple Quicktime)