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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 (slideshow)
Christina Manganaro [ 12 April 2000 ]
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Earthquakes Canada
Geological Survey of Canada (GSC),
Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada
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Earthquakes (New Zealand)
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
[ 3 March 2010 ]
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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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Earthquakes with 50,000 or More Deaths
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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Fear sweeps Christchurch as city braces
for more quakes
Tamara Mclean,
couriermail.com.au,
The Courier Mail,
News Queensland
[ 14 June 2011 ]
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Poster of the South Island, New Zealand
Earthquake of 13 June 2011 - Magnitude 6.0
Earthquake Hazards Program,
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
U.S. Department of the Interior
[ 13 June 2011 ]
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Mexico Quake Studies Uncover Surprises for California
News & Features, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) &
California Institute of
Technology [ 16 December 2010 ]
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NASA Radar Images Show How Mexico Quake
Deformed Earth
News & Features, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) &
California Institute of
Technology [ 23 June 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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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
courtesy of EurekAlert [ 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.
Follow links to the right to learn more about earthquakes and seismology.
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