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The
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (http://www.ig.utexas.edu)
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The
Electronic Desktop Project at Cal State LA has created a program called
VirtualEarthQuake that provides an excellent interactive tutorial on analyzing
seismographs. Students have to make measurements from seismographs to determine
the approximate location and magnitude of a past earthquake. This program
runs on the web and is at (http://vcourseware4.calstatela.edu/VirtualEarthquake/VQuakeIntro.html
)
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The
PEPP (Princeton Earth Physics Project) web site (
http://lasker.princeton.edu/index.shtml)
supports many aspects of this vista. PEPP’s WWW server provides access to
a global seismicity database and to seismograms recorded by the PEPP Seismograph
Network, as well as other networks. It also provides links for teaching
resources including classroom materials that PEPP has developed to aid in
the teaching of the Earth Sciences for grades 8-12, and software written
and developed specifically for PEPP which allows students to analyze the
seismic data. A key aspect of the PEPP web site is a list of potential research
topics suitable for high school students with access to PEPP data.
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Alan
L. Jones of SUNY Binghamton has developed two programs that help teach key
concepts about seismology and the structure of the earth. Seismic Waves
connects the propagation of seismic waves through the earth and the resulting
seismographs at a number of stations. Seismic Eruption plots the location
and magnitude of earthquakes and volcanoes. These plots tend to highlight
the edges of tectonic plates while plotting a 3-D view of earthquakes in
some places illustrates the concept of a subduction zone. These programs
can be found at
http://www.geol.binghamton.edu/faculty/jones/.
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The
US Geologic Survey (USGS) provides access to a great deal of information
in text and pictures about earthquakes and seismology. The main page is
at http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/.
A tutorial on locating earthquakes at http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/more/eqlocation/eqloc.html
is a good (if a bit dry) complement to the Cal State program.
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IRIS
(Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) is the source of earthquake
data from stations all over the world. They also have some teaching resources
online. The home page is at http://www.iris.washington.edu/.
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The
Seismological Society of America has an education page with some useful
links. It is at http://www.seismosoc.org/education/index.html.
