Earthquakes! This article is a Why Files report, discusses the 2004 earthquake in Pakistan and the Indian Ocean tsunami and continues with an investigation of earthquakes and earthquake safety. Topics covered include: plate tectonics, finding faults, a timeline on the theory of continental drift, earthquake prediction, and safe building construction. Earthquakes for Kids and Grownups: Fun and Educational Activities & Information This web page provides links to earthquake-related educational activities for kids, teachers and adults in general. Facts about earthquakes, animations of earthquake activity, ideas for science fair projects and lists of recent earthquakes are provided. Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Up-to-the-minute seismic activity map. View pre-assembled maps or create your own global or regional maps of seismic events. Look at recent seismograms. IRIS has a web tool called WILBER that allows you to view seismograms produced by networks of stations responding to large events.

Life Along the Faultline This site is an exploration of the San Andreas Fault, earthquakes, and seismicity. The information addressed includes a section on the Loma Prieta earthquake, a section on why the Earth shakes, a look at seismic science including a look at plate tectonics and continental drift, the different types of faults, P waves, S waves, love waves, and measuring, monitoring and predicting earthquakes. National Earthquake Information Center Track earthquakes worldwide. Check out what is happening seismically by visiting this United States Geological Survey website. Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country This online handbook provides the ABCs of earthquake information. Find out how to make yourself and your home safer during an earthquake. Play the earthquake game. Learn more about the science of earthquakes and how scientists evaluate earthquake hazards. Seismic/Eruption Program This website allows you to download a program that offers a world map showing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions worldwide in time sequence since 1960. Blinking lights represent earthquakes flashing on the screen in speeded-up time.

Surfing the Internet for Earthquake Data
Use this site to put together your own earthquake data sets, which you can then plot on a world map or globe.

The Tech Museum of Innovation: Earthquakes
Learn about earthquakes, faults, plate tectonics, earth's structure, seismograms and seismographs, and much more. Great graphics!

University of California
Learn something about earthquakes from the University of CA. View an animation on how earthquakes occur. Learn about famous earthquake accounts and take the earthquake quiz.

USGS Earthquake Information
Learn how to reduce earthquake hazards. Find out how and why to prepare for an earthquake. View current maps showing earthquake data.

Virtual Earthquake
This site is an interactive computer program designed to introduce you to the concepts of how an earthquake epicenter is located and how the Richter magnitude of an earthquake is determined.

Yahoo! Earthquakes
Search for a variety of earthquake related information using this Yahoo earthquake search engine.