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Links for Educators |
| BASIC EXPLANATIONS | DATA AND LINKS
Earthquakes home at the US Geological Survey Terrific activities from the Southern California Earthquake Center Using space technology to observe and measure plate tectonic motion (try the Activities!)
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| ANIMATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
For some real fun, download the iView3D freeware 3-D model viewer, and then go to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Visualization Center and get the file called the "Engdahl catalog", which plots 77,000 earthquake events on a globe. With the iView3D viewer, you can look at them from virtually any angle, and "see" underground! |
OTHER NEAT SITES
NEIU "NASA/UNCF Project" module on Volcanoes The
USGS gives an activity similar to the one on
Just for fun: Zoom
out of Chicago (Video courtesy
of NASA/Goddard
Space Flight Center)
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Main Page on Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Plate Tectonics
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