There are many worldwide web sites providing information about science of seismology and providing seismological data from earthquakes. The following are several of the larger web sites worth visiting.

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/seismo/seismo.page.html
The web page for the Seismological Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) provides extensive information about seismology and allows access to it's repository of southern California earthquake data.

http://www-socal.wr.usgs.gov/seismolinks.html
The USGS maintains this page of "seismolinks" to just about any kind of earthquake information imaginable.

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/intro.html
Tsunami, the so-called "tidal waves" produced by earthquakes are extremely hazardous. Find out all about them at Tsunami! - The WWW Tsunami Information Resource, maintained by Catherine Petroff, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Washington.

http://www.eas.slu.edu/Earthquake_Center/earthquakecenter.html
The St. Louis University Earthquake Center provides information about one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States in New Madrid, Missouri in the early 1800's and information about their ongoing monitoring of seismic activity in the midwestern U.S.

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html
This is comprehensive listing of sources for information about seismology on the world-wide web maintained by the geophysics department at the University of Washington in Seattle. Look here to find web pages for academic and government institutions engaged in earthquake research around the world.

http://www.sfmuseum.org/
The Museum of the City of San Francisco has an interesting archive of information about the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake including historical photographs and eyewitness accounts by such notable people as the opera tenor Enrico Caruso and the author Jack London. Information is also presented on the earthquake of 1989.

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/
The National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado maintains an online database of current earthquake activity. This near real-time data includes the time, location, depth, and magnitude of the most recent earthquakes around the world and a global map plotting the location of each earthquake.

http://sepwww.stanford.edu/oldsep/joe/fault_images/BayAreaSanAndreasFault.html
A virtual field trip, from geologist Joseph Dellinger, to California's San Andreas fault as it's exposed in the San Francisco Bay area.

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