- Build your own seismograph
Detailed instructions for building a crude seismograph.
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/lessons/indiv/davis/hs/Seismograph.html
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- FAQs
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/faq.html
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- Plate Tectonics, The Cause of Earthquakes
Informational website describing the process of earthquake formation in a tectonic context.
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html
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- Seismic Records of the Russian Submarine Kursk
NORSAR (the Norwegian Seismic Array) was among the first to publish documentation regarding the sinking of the Russian submarine, Kursk, in 12 August 2000.
http://www.norsar.no/pressreleases/barentssea/
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- The New Madrid Fault Zone
Scientists trying to understand the cause of large magnitude earthquakes in the central United States before it's too late!
http://quake.ualr.edu/public/nmfz.htm
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- The San Andreas Fault and the San Francisco Bay Area
The San Andreas Fault, a transform fault, is one of the Earth's major plate boundaries. Urban development along the coastline of California from Los Angeles north to Cape Mendocino has engulfed this tectonically active geological feature. The following website, The San Andreas Fault and the San Francisco Bay Area, discusses the influence of geology on past and future cultural development in the region.
http://sepwww.stanford.edu/oldsep/joe/fault_images/BayArea San Andreas/
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- Virtual Earthquake
California State University at Los Angeles interactive web site and allows the visitor to participate in determination of an earthquake epicenter and estimation of the Richter magnitude.
http://www.sciencecourseware.com/
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- World Trade Center Disaster
Seismogram recording impact of commercial airliners with World Trade Center and their ultimate collapse, 11 September 2001. Obtained from station PAL, part of the Lamont-Doherty Cooperative Seismographic Network in New York.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq/20010911_wtc.html
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