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Asia Quake & Tsunamis (December 2004)
See our separate Asia Tsunamis page.

Hawaii (October 15, 2006)
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

Mount St. Helens
USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory - Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens Seismicity Information
Includes latest earthquakes at Mount St. Helens and Press Releases.
- The Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network
University of Washington, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences

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Earthquake Hazards Program
"To provide and apply relevant earthquake science Centers and knowledge for reducing deaths, injuries, and property damage from earthquakes through understanding of their characteristics and effects and by providing the Centers and knowledge needed to mitigate these losses."
- USGS

  • "An Assessment of Seismic Monitoring in the United States (ANSS)--Requirement for an Advanced National Seismic System" - (dead link)
  • "Earthquake Hazard Program Five Year Plan 1998-2002" - (dead link)

Latest Earthquake Information - (dead link)
USGS

National Earthquake Information Center
"The NEIC has three main missions. First, the NEIC determines, as rapidly and as accurately as possible, the location and size of all destructive earthquakes that occur worldwide. The NEIC disseminates this information immediately to concerned national and international agencies, scientists, and the general public. Second, the NEIC collects and provides to scientists and to the public an extensive seismic database that serves as a solid foundation for scientific research, principally through the operation of modern digital national and global seismograph networks and through cooperative international agreements. The NEIC is the national data center and archive for earthquake information. Third, the NEIC pursues an active research program to improve its ability to locate earthquakes and to understand the earthquake mechanism."

British Geological Survey (BGS)

Bulletin of the Seismographic Stations

California Geological Survey

  • Earthquakes
    "...studies earthquakes to help Californians plan and build earthquake resistant communities. We record the strong ground motion from earthquakes, study the distribution of historic earthquakes and evaluate faults that are the source of earthquakes. We combine that information to prepare maps showing the potential for ground shaking, fault rupture, liquefaction and seismically induced landsliding."
  • Seismic Hazards Zonation Program
    Sections include: Zone Maps, Reports & GIS Data ; Laws and Guidelines ; Affected Cities and Counties ; Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment Maps ; Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zones ; Seismic Hazards Mapping Bulletins.

Canadian National Earthquake Hazards Program
Natural Resources Canada

  • Canadian National Seismology Data Centre
     "Almost a gigabyte of continuous, compressed seismic ground motion data from 136 CNSN components are acquired, quality controlled, processed, and archived within the CNSDC on a daily basis. Event detection, automatic location, and issuing e-mail alerts are accomplished within minutes of local and regional events..."
  • Canadian National Seismograph Network (CNSN)
  • National Earthquake Database
    &quotThe NEDB acts as the national repository for all raw seismograph data, measurements, and derived parameters arising from the Canadian National Seismograph Network (CNSN), regional telemetered networks in eastern and western Canada(ECTN, WCTN), local telemetered networks (CLTN), the Regional Analogue Network, the former Standard Seismograph Network, and the Yellowknife Seismological Array (YKA). It supports the Seismology Program's efforts in Canadian seismicity monitoring, global seismic monitoring, verification of the Comprehensive nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and international data exchange.

Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW)
"...is a coalition of private and public representatives working together to improve the ability of Cascadia Region communities to reduce the effects of earthquake events."

Central American Seismic Center (CASC) - (dead link)

Council of the National Seismic Systems

Earthquake Data Base
- USGS

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

Earthquakes
- USGS publication

Earthscope - (dead link)
"...to apply modern observational, analytical and telecommunications technologies to investigate the structure and evolution of the North American continent and the physical processes controlling earthquakes and volcanic eruptions."

Encyclopedia of Housing Construction Types in Seismically Prone Areas of the World
"...an interactive web-based encyclopedia of housing construction types in seismically prone areas of the world. This endeavor is linking over 180 volunteer engineers and architects from many diverse countries and regions, enabling them to develop and share data, and providing the worldwide housing professionals and general public with the tools to improve housing vulnerable to earthquakes..."
Joint Project of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the International Association of Earthquake Engineering.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

  • Reference Library
    • A Policy Guide to Steel Moment-Frame Construction - (dead link) FEMA 354
      "This manual explains in layman's terms the findings and recommendations from a FEMA-sponsored study of steel-frame buildings initiated in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake. The project was conducted by the SAC Joint Venture (the Structural Engineers Association of California, the Applied Technology Council and California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering)."

Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)
"...is a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data."

  • Seismic Monitor
    "Seismic Monitor allows you to monitor global earthquakes in near real-time, visit seismic stations around the world, and search the web for earthquake or region-related information."

Induced Earthquake Bibliography
"This bibliography contains references to publications concerning earthquakes and other seismicity induced by human activity."
Maintained by Darlene A. Cypser

International Association of Earthquake Engineering

Instituto Geofisico del Peru

Iran (December 26, 2003) - Bam, Iran

[Japan] University of Tokyo - Earthquake Research Institute (Japanese or English)

Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)

  • Engineering and Organization Issues Related to The World Trade Center Terrorist Attack - (dead link)
    "The series is based on the premise that the World Trade Center attack could be seen as a 'proxy' for what a major earthquake might do in a complex, densely populated, modern urban environment."

National Academy Press (free downloads)

National Energy Research Seismic Library (NERSL) - (dead link)

National Science Foundation

The Nisqually Quake 2001 (Seattle Quake)

University of Washington Geophysics Program Seismology Page

University of Washington Earthquake Information Clearinghouse - (dead link)
Includes photo galleries, geotechnical information, engineering reports and more.

Earthquake (02/28/01) Damage to Washington Libraries (let me know if you know of other online photo galleries showing library damage)

Pacific Northwest Earthquake Information (PNSN)

U.S. Geological Survey

Media Reports and Photo Galleries - (dead link) (Seattle)
NW Earthquake Home

Lehrer News Hour Interview on Nisqually Earthquake

The Olympian: Earthquake Extra
Photos by the Olympian, Olympia, Washington (11 miles from epicenter)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Northwest Earthquake

Seattle Times: Earthquake - (dead link)
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Oviatt Library Quake Damage
California State University Northridge University Library
January 17, 1994 Northridge Earthquake.
Sections include: What Happened ; Photographs ; Federal Depository Library Conference Presentation.
By Mary Finley

Pacific Northwest Earthquake Information

A Report Summarizing the Statistical Modeling of Volcanic Risk Studies at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
By Chih-Hsiang Ho, University of Nevada, Las Vegas December, 1996

San Andreas Fault System, California - (dead link)
"This multimedia document is based on U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1515 titled The San Andreas Fault System, California edited by Dr. Robert E. Wallace and published by United States Government Printing Office, Washington in 1990 and 1991."

[San Francisco 1906] California Historical Society

[San Francisco 1906] San Francisco 1906 Earthquake and Fire
Includes maps, photographs, reports, seismic readings, newspaper clippings, and much more
- Museum of the City of San Francisco

[San Francisco 1906] U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Seismocam Homepage - (dead link)
Southern California Seismographic Network
A Cooperative Project of Caltech and the U.S. Geological Survey

Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)

TriNet: The Seismic System for Southern California - (dead link)
"...is a five-year collaborative project to create a better, more effective real-time earthquake information system for Southern California. TriNet will incorporate new technologies to provide vital information within minutes of an earthquake. Our goal is to mitigate the impact of future large earthquakes in Southern California."

  • Current Seismicity & SCSN Earthquake Reports - (dead link)
    [recent California earthquakes]

[Tsunami] International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC)
"...was established in 1965 by the IOC (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). ITIC maintains and develops relationships with scientific research and academic organizations, civil defense agencies, and the general public in order to carry out its mission to mitigate the hazards associated with tsunamis by improving tsunami preparedness for all Pacific Ocean nations."

[Tsunami] Tsunami!
"This site has been developed with a broad audience in mind; consequently, it contains extensive background information that is intended primarily for the general public, including information about the mechanisms of tsunami generation and propagation, the impact of tsunamis on humankind, and the Tsunami Warning System. This site also contains more detailed information about recent tsunami events that will be of interest to tsunami and interdisciplinary researchers."
- Geophysics Dept., University of Washington

[Tsunami] USC - Tsunami Research Center
Sections include: News ; Video/Animation / Publications ; Staff ; Links.

U.S. Geological Survey

University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables (UCIST) - (dead link)
A Cooperative Effort in Earthquake Engineering Education

University of California, Berkeley - Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center PEER)

  • Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
    "Access to world literature in earthquake engineering since 1971."
  • OpenSees
    Open System for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
    "...a software framework for developing applications to simulate the performance of structural and geotechnical systems subjected to earthquakes."
  • PEER Strong Motions Database
    "...contains 1557 records from 143 earthquakes from tectonically active regions, processed by Dr. Walt Silva of Pacific Engineering using publicly available data from Federal, State, and private providers of strong motion data."
  • The PEER Review - (dead link)
    PEER's newsletter

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Mid-America Earthquake Center

  • Earthquake Resource Links for Teachers - (dead link)
    Sections include: Earthquake Lesson Plans ; General Earthquake Information ; Earthquake Activities.

Virtual Courseware for Earth and Environmental Sciences
Sections include: Earthquake ; Global Warming ; Virtual Earthquake ; Virtual Dating ; Virtual River ; Biology Labs On-Line (FlyLab).
- Natural Science Faculty, California State University, Los Angeles



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