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- 100% Chance of an Earthquake — Earthquake statistics. (USGS)
- Can It Happen Here? — Could a large damaging tsunami happen in the United States? (USGS)
- Can We Predict Earthquakes? PodCast — Scientist Mike Blanpied discusses the science of earthquake prediction. (USGS)
- Digital Online Geology - Earthquakes — Online version of "Earthquakes" by Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, and Dennis Tasa. This informative chapter about earthquakes has images, text, quizzes, and narrated animations explaining what happens when earthquakes occur. (TASA Graphic Arts)
- Earthquake Model — earthquake recurrence, size, and prediction demonstration instructions, brick & sandpaper model (USGS)
- Earthquake Prediction Information — short overview (University of Washington)
- Earthquake Prediction, Societal Implications — technical paper (journal Reviews of Geophysics)
- Earthquakes — general overview of earthquakes, online USGS general interest publication (USGS)
- Earthquakes by Bruce A. Bolt Online Companion — links related to subjects covered in book (W.H. Freeman & Co.)
- Earthquakes Cannot Be Predicted — technical paper (journal Science)
- Earthquakes, MegaQuakes, and the Movies — discussion about facts versus fantasies (USGS)
- Is the reliable prediction of individual earthquakes a realistic scientific goal? — Seven-week debate involving many authors and their views (journal of Nature)
- Living in Earthquake Country-Teaching Box — Explores how and why earthquakes cause damage, seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides, liquefaction, or structural failure. (DLESE)
- Papers from an NAS Colloquium on "Earthquake Prediction: The Scientific Challenge" — excellent collection of downloadable papers (National Academy of Sciences)
- Predicting Earthquakes — short overview (USGS)
- Savage Earth, The — slick presentation of the earthquake basics with great graphics and animations (PBS)
- Science Explained, The — links to popular science articles about earthquake research (USGS)
- The Parkfield Experiment — attempting to predict a Parkfield, CA earthquake (USGS)
- Understanding Quakes — description, photos, and graphics of earthquake basics and effects of earthquakes in Turkey (The Why Files)
