Earthquake Web Resources
Updated 05/08/2008

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Photo galleries of earthquake effects: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=5&t=101634&s=0&d=1

Recent earthquake epicenter maps: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
    Links to regional maps are posted under the global earthquake epicenter map.  This site is rich in resources - explore and discover!

Excellent series of slides explaining basic earthquake seismology, with focus on California: http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/quakes/grams/

Los Angeles Times stories on earthquakes:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-quake-special,1,4006962.special?coll=la-util-news-local

You may have to register with the LA Times in order to read the newspaper stories.  I have not seen any indication that my registration has been abused, and I've been reading the online LA Times for years.

Earn your certificate as a Virtual Seismologist!  Read seismograms, locate the earthquake and calculate the magnitude.  http://www.sciencecourseware.org/eec/Earthquake/

Seismosurfing for earthquake data: http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html

Online seismograms - almost real time (many are updated every 5 or 10 minutes)
    Global network: http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2.shtml - last 24 hours, updated every 30 minutes.
    California stations: http://quake.usgs.gov/waveforms/helicorder/index.html
    Pacific Northwest: http://www.ess.washington.edu/SEIS/PNSN/WEBICORDER/PNSN/welcome.html
    Utah region: http://www.seis.utah.edu/helicorder/heli/utah/index.html
    Dickinson College - Carlisle, PA (3 components): http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/geol/seis/seis_online.html
    New Zealand: http://www.geonet.org.nz/drums.html
    St. Louis (MO) network - scroll down to Current traces links: http://mnw.eas.slu.edu/Earthquake_Center/NM/bbsta.html
    Lamont-Doherty (eastern USA): http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/view_pal.html
    Alaska: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/waveforms/crest/indexc.html
    Costa Rica: http://www.ovsicori.una.ac.cr/pag/pag1sis.html
    Mexico: http://www.ssn.unam.mx/SSN/sismogramas.htm
    Italy: select component before clicking 'visualize seismogram': http://www.iesn.org/reale/drum.htm
        http://www.iesn.org/book.htm gives Italian station locations
    Turkey: http://www.mam.gov.tr/eng/institutes/ydbe/index.html
    Taiwan: http://140.109.81.60/  - station data at http://bats.earth.sinica.edu.tw/Station/BATS_Stn_Summary.html#ptsb

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