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EARTHQUAKE MONITORING
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World Earthquake Monitoring
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Latest Earthquakes in the World -
Past 7 days
Earthquake Hazards Program,
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
U.S. Department of the Interior
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U.S. Earthquake Monitoring
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24-Hour Aftershock Forecast Map
Hazards & Preparedness,
Earthquake Hazards Program,
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
U.S. Department of the Interior
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Recent Earthquakes in
California and Nevada
(map & data)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
U.S. Department of the Interior
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Philippine Earthquake Monitoring
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Exploring the Structure and Evolution of the
North American Continent
EarthScope, National Science Foundation (NSF),
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) &
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA)
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San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth
San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD),
EarthScope & International Continental
Scientific
Drilling Program (ICDP)
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Cascadia (Pacific Northwest) Seismicity
William P. Leeman,
Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories, Rice University
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Earthquakes (slide show)
Christina Manganaro
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Earthquakes Canada
Geological Survey of Canada (GSC),
Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada
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Frequency of earthquakes worldwide
Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Limited (GNS)
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GeoNet (New Zealand)
Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Limited (GNS)
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Giant Megathrust Earthquakes
Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) - Sidney Subdivision,
Natural Resources Canada,
Government of Canada
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GNS Earthquake information (New Zealand)
Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Limited (GNS)
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Largest Earthquakes in the World Since 1900
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program,
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
U.S. Department of the Interior
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Most Destructive Known Earthquakes on Record
in the World
Earthquakes with 50,000 or More Deaths,
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program,
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
U.S. Department of the Interior
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Megathrust earthquake
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation
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Virtual Courseware: Earthquake
Geology Labs On-Line, Virtual Courseware Project,
California State University &
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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What is Richter Magnitude?
Nevada Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada, Reno
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Deformation of Jamaica and motion of the Gonâve microplate from GPS and seismic data
C. DeMets & M. Wiggins-Grandison,
Geophysical Journal International (GJI),
Wiley-Blackwell,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
[ 11 September 2006 ]
(Advanced to Technical Audience)
(Adobe PDF file)
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Complexity Computational Environment:
Data Assimilation SERVOGrid
Andrea Donnellan, Jay Parker, Geoffrey Fox,
Marlon Pierce, John Rundle, Dennis McLeod
[ 2004 ]
(Advanced to Technical Audience)
(Adobe PDF file)
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Distributed Hybrid Earthquake Engineering Experiments:
Experiences with a Ground-Shaking Grid Application
Laura Pearlman, Carl Kesselman, Sridhar Gullapalli,
B.F. Spencer, Jr., Joe Futrelle, Kathleen Ricker,
Ian Foster,
Paul Hubbard, Charles Severance
[ 2004 ]
(Advanced to Technical Audience)
(Adobe PDF file)
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Measuring earthquakes from optical satellite images
Nadège Van Puymbroeck, Rémi Michel, Renaud Binet,
Jean-Philippe Avouac, Jean Taboury,
Applied Optics, Vol. 39, No. 20,
Optical Society of America (OSA)
[ 10 July 2000 ]
(Adobe PDF file)
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What Can Seismology Say About Hot Spots?
Bruce R. Julian & Gillian R. Foulger,
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
U.S. Department of the Interior &
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Durham (Durham, UK)
(Adobe PDF file)
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EARTHQUAKE NEWS
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Earthquake in Haiti
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Fierce Quake Devastates Haitian Capital
Simon Romero & Marc Lacey,
The New York Times
courtesy of post-gazette.com,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
PG Publishing Co., Inc.
[ 13 January 2010 ]
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Haitian Earthquake: What Happened?
Token Tarheel, Open Salon,
Salon Media Group, Inc. [ 13 January 2010 ]
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Tectonics of the Haitian earthquake
Chris Rowan, Highly Allochthonous,
ScienceBlogs LLC [ 13 January 2010 ]
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The Devastating Haiti Earthquake: Questions and Answers
Environment, LiveScience,
TechMediaNetwork.com [ 13 January 2010 ]
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Sun and moon trigger deep tremors on
San Andreas Fault
Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center,
University of California at Berkeley
[ 23 December 2009 ]
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Rumbles In Missouri A Reminder Of Quakes Past
The Associated Press courtesy of NPR [ 22 December 2009 ]
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Megaquake Looms Over Seattle
Michael Reilly,
Earth News,
Discovery News,
Discovery Communications, LLC
[ 27 October 2009 ]
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Sichuan quake was once-in-4,000-year event: scientists
Earth Sciences,
Space & Earth,
PhysOrg.com
[ 27 September 2009 ]
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Planet ‘Restlessness’ May Predict Big Quakes
Michael Reilly,
Earth News,
Discovery News,
Discovery Communications, LLC
[ 22 June 2009 ]
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New Map of Daily Probability of Earthquake Shaking
in California
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
U.S. Department of the Interior
[ 18 May 2005 ]
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Can Satellites Aid Earthquake Predictions?
John Roach, National Geographic News,
National Geographic Society [ 20 July 2004 ]
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Observatory promises data of
‘unprecedented accuracy’ at tectonic boundary
Geoff Koch, Stanford Report,
Stanford University
[ 13 January 2004 ]
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Japanese shipwreck adds to evidence of great Cascadia earthquake in 1700
Vince Stricherz, University of Washington [ 31 October 2003 ]
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West Coast Earthquakes Ongoing, Scientists Discover
NSF PR 02-21, NSF Press Release,
National Science Foundation (NSF)
[ 28 March 2002 ]
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Final Report: Kingston Metropolitan Area Seismic Hazard Assessment
Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project,
Unit of Sustainable Development and Environment,
Organization of American States (OAS)
[ 20 April 2001 ]
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Earthquakes are one of a handful of natural disasters that occur virtually
without warning. State-of-the-art seismic prediction methods provide
at best only vague probabilities of occurrence, with certainties measured
in decades. Yet earthquakes take place every day; a year without a
major, devastating quake in some part of the world is both fortunate and
rare.
The vast majority of earthquakes are a natural consequence of plate
tectonics, a mechanism through which the Earth’s crust has
been broken into large plates riding on convection currents
within the Earth’s fluid mantle. Tectonic plates, which are
created along ocean ridges (sea floor spreading) and sink at their
edges (subduction), do not move uniformly in either direction
or speed; where they rub at their boundaries, tremendous
stress is produced. The sudden release of this stress — the
potential energy stored within deformed rock being converted into the
kinetic energy of seismic waves — is what we call an
earthquake.
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