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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