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This
site
is
the
homepage
of
Alan
L.
Jones,
of
the
State
University
of
New
York
at
Binghamton.
Dr.
Jones
is
interested
in
most
earthquake-related
topics,
computer
graphics,
and
computers
in
education.
He
has
created
various
computer-based
visualizations:
Seismic/
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This
data
tip
from
Bridge,
the
Ocean
Sciences
Education
Teacher
Resource
Center
archive,
includes
a
variety
of
educational
sites
to
visit
on
plate
tectonic
theory.
Learners
can
use
underwater
earthquake
data
to
identify
plate
boundaries
with
links
to
the
National
Oceanic
and
Atmospheric
Administration's
Acoustic
Monitoring
Program
Ocean
Seismicity
data.
Data
from
the
Northeast
Pacific,
eastern
Equatorial
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This
lesson
introduces
students
to
a
variety
of
natural
hazards,
emphasizing
that
when
people
understand
these
threats
they
are
better
able
to
avoid
or
reduce
their
potential
impacts.
First,
the
class
discusses
what
they
know
about
natural
hazards
and
natural
disasters.
Then,
working
in
pairs,
they
research
particular
hazards;
the
threats
they
pose
and
where
and
when
those
threats
are
most
pronounced.
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This
page
provides
an
overview
of
the
role
of
plate
tectonics
in
the
generation
of
earthquakes.
It
provides
a
map
of
plate
locations
and
figures
that
illustrate
fault
types
and
tectonic
environments
(extensional,
transform,
and
compressional).
Examples
of
surface
features
in
the
Pacific
Northwest,
Nevada,
Indonesia,
the
San
Andreas
Fault,
the
Red
Sea,
the
Zagoros
Mountains
in
Iran,
and
on
the
planet
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The
Montana
Bureau
of
Mines
and
Geology
is
the
principal
source
of
earth
science
information
for
the
citizens
of
Montana.
The
bureau
provides
extensive
advisory,
technical,
and
informational
services
on
geologic,
mineral,
energy,
and
water
resources
in
the
state
of
Montana.
This
includes
earthquake
studies,
environmental
assessment,
Geographic
Information
Services
(GIS),
geology
and
minerals,
groundwater,
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The
Plymouth
Wave
Lab
is
a
series
of
movies
of
waves
on
a
string
intended
for
middle
school
students.
The
reference
material
at
the
site
explains
the
relationship
between
the
behavior
of
the
string
in
the
six
examples
and
the
behavior
of
a
tsunami.
The
December
26,
2004
tsunami
that
was
generated
from
the
M9.0
Sumatra
earthquake
has
raised
public
awareness
worldwide
of
the
disastrous
consequences
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The
Colorado
Geological
Survey
(CGS)
is
an
agency
of
state
government
within
the
Department
of
Natural
Resources
whose
mission
is
to
help
reduce
the
impact
of
geologic
hazards
on
the
citizens
of
Colorado,
to
promote
the
responsible
economic
development
of
mineral
and
mineral
fuel
resources,
to
provide
geologic
insight
into
water
resources,
and
to
provide
geologic
advice
and
information
to
a
variety
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This
site
is
the
source
of
many
map
and
globe
images.
The
table
of
contents
includes
the
overview
gallery
with
global
and
continental
views,
the
Java
Script
gallery
of
these
overviews,
the
high-resolution
gallery
which
contains
global
and
continental/
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The
Earth
Science
Picture
of
the
Day
is
an
image
archive
that
is
hosted
by
the
Universities
Space
Research
Association
in
association
with
NASA's
Goddard
Space
Flight
Center
with
a
record
of
entries
beginning
September
2000.
Each
image
is
accompanied
by
a
descriptive
text
and
links
to
relevant
supporting
websites.
Keyword
searching
is
provided.
Browsing
by
related
fields
includes:
agriculture,
astronomy,
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This
Why
Files
article
looks
at
tsunamis
in
the
wake
of
the
July
17,
1998
disaster
in
Papua
New
Guinea
that
killed
over
a
thousand
people.
Topics
covered
are:
the
causes
of
tsunamis,
tsunami
movement
across
the
ocean,
the
history
of
some
killer
tsunamis
of
the
last
few
hundred
years,
and
ways
to
reduce
human
vulnerability
to
tsunamis.
Readers
can
download
a
movie
about
how
investigators
think
the
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