Earthquakes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/
hi/sci/tech/4126809.stm

Information Level D

BBC animated guide to how earthquakes happen.

Watch the animated guide. How and why does the earth’s surface move?

http://teacher.scholastic.com/
activities/science/
earthquake_interactives.htm

Information Level D

A world map of the tectonic plates.

Find the zones and faults on the Earth’s surface.

Roll your cursor over the cross section of the earth’s surface to see the results of the tectonic plates moving.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/
aso/tryit/tectonics/#

Interactive Level D

Information about the causes of earthquakes.

Try the Plate Tectonics activity Mountain Maker Earth Shaker.

Click and drag the arrows to push the tectonic plates together or pull them apart. What happens to the landscape?

www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/
earthquakes/

Information Level D/E

Explanations of earthquakes and animations.

Watch the animations.

Watch the video from a helicopter of the 1989 Lorna Prieta earthquake.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov
/learning/kids.php

Information and Interactive Level C

Latest quakes. Cool earthquake facts. Earthquake pictures. Puzzles and games.

Go to Latest Quakes. Where in the world was there an earthquake today?

Go to Puzzles and Games. Try Plate Tectonics activities or the Earthquakes quiz.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/info/
listen/index.html

Interactive Level D

This site converts the shaking during earthquakes to sound.

Listen to the sounds. Do the quiz.

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

Information Level D

The World wide Earthquake locator.

Study the real time earthquake maps and find out the latest earthquake information.

www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/
online/quakes/intro/

Information Level D

How earthquakes are measured.

How can you pinpoint the locations of earthquakes?

How can you accurately measure the size of the earthquake?

www.sciencecourseware.org/
eec/Earthquake/

Interactive Level E

Photos of earthquakes and games to play.

Play Travel Time an online experiment about how a travel time graph is constructed and used.

Play Epicentre location an epicentre location and Richter Magnitude activity.

In Travel Time decide the locations of 5 seismic stations, initiate an explosion, measure the distance to each station, measure the S-P time lag and draw a graph.

In Epicentre Location find the location of the epicentre of the earthquake by examining 3 different recording stations.