Earthquakes and Volcanoes
January 24, 2009
I. Presentations
Ellen's
presentations
Your Planet Earth -
Powerpoints on volcanoes, plate tectonics, and other geoscience topics
II. Activities
Earthquake and Volcano
Mapping With GIS
Word document
Locating An Earthquake Epicenter
The
Earthquake Machine
Online
Exercise: Earthquakes
Word document
Volcanoes and the Earth System
Virtual Volcano -
"Volcano Explorer"
Word
document
Other Sources of Lessons
Musical Plates- plotting current earthquake data
Living with a Volcano in Your Backyard
Volcanoes
teaching packet - USGS
Virtual Earthquake:
An online version of epicenter location exercise
This
Dynamic Planet: A Teaching Companion
Order
the map for $14
Discovering Plate Boundaries (masters of the figures, plus Teachers Guide and more).
California's
Volcanoes: students make a brochure guide for visitors to one of
II. Plate tectonics/Geology Framework
A. General
Savage
Earth from PBS: animations of faults, seismic waves, plate boundaries,
volcanic eruptions and more.
B. California
From Tanya Atwater: Animations including plate history of Western North America and California
Phil Stoffer's guide to Rocks
and Geology in the San Francisco Bay region (PDF file)
California
Geography, Geology, Hazards, and Natural History
Information
(USGS)
III. Earthquakes
Forcasting California's Earthquakes - What Can We Expect in the Next 30Years? - UGSS
Recent California Earthquakes—USGS
site.
Recent World Earthquakes—NEIC
site.
The USGS Did You Feel It
site, where you can report damage you felt in a recent earthquake, and
view Mercalli intensity maps for recent earthquakes.
The USGS ShakeMap
site, which has intensity maps of recent earthquakes.
1868
Hayward Earthquake Alliance
IV. Volcanoes
USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
Dynamic Map of California's Volcanoes
Volcano World — Excellent clearinghouse for volcano information, with Teachers' and Students' sections.