Plate Tectonic Hotlist

Plate Tectonic Hotlist
An Internet Hotlist on Plate Tectonics

created by Jane Orbuch
San Lorenzo Valley High School

Introduction
You COULD look for books or magazines to find out about Plate Tectonics, but why not use the power of the Internet instead? The links below will get you started.

The Internet Resources

Earthquakes

ABAG Earthquake Maps and Information -
Bay Area Earthquake Resources -
Central United States Earthquake Consortium -
Did you feel it? -
Earthquake Alarm Systems--UC Berkeley -
Earthquake Hazards in the Pacific Northwest -
Earthquake Safety Preparedness Information -
Federal Emergency Management Service -
Finding Earthquake Epicenters--Java Applet -
GDACS--Global Disaster Alert and Coordination system - Near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world
Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program -
Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, 100 years later -
IRIS Seismic Monitor - IRIS is a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data.
Latest Earthquakes in the World--Past 7 days(2.5 or 4.0) -
Listening to Earthquakes - sounds to download/quiz etc
Make Your Own Sesimograph -
Maps of Recent Earthquake Activity in California-Nevada -
Mercury News California Earthquakes -
Public Seismic Network of San Jose -
Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - Handbook for SF bay region
Quake Catcher Network - The Quake-Catcher Network is a collaborative initiative for developing the world's largest, low-cost strong-motion seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to internet-connected computers.
Recent California Earthquakes -
Recent Earthquakes for San Francisco Bay -
Savage Earth Earthquakes -
SeisMac - SeisMac is a free Mac OS X application that will turn a MacBook or MacBook Pro into a three-axis seismograph.
Seismowatch -
Southern California Earthquake Center - The SCEC (Southern California Earthquake Center) Data Center is the primary archive and distribution center of seismological data recorded by the Southern California Seismic Network(SCSN), and various Portable Seismic Instrument Arrays. Global Positioning System Data collected by SCEC, or contributed to the archive by organizations such as the U.S. Geological Survey, is also archived and available here.
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program--Northern Ca -
USGS Earthquake and Volcano Deformation and Stress Triggering Group - Click on 'stress triggering and earthquake probabilities' to get a brief explanation. Then check out animations page showing how quakes propagate over time
USGS National Earthquake Information Center -
USGS:New Madrid Information -
Virtual Earthquake - Virtual Earthquake 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. The Virtual Earthquake computer program is running on a Web Server at California State University at Los Angeles. You can interact with Virtual Earthquake using your Web browser.
Written in Stone Earthquake Animations -

Volcanoes

Cascade Volcano Information -
Decade Volcanoes: Mauna Loa -
Discovery Channel Krakatoa -
Electronic Volcano -
Global Volcanism Program -
Movies of Mt Erebus Strombolian Eruptions -
Nova: Volcano Under the City - Check out Anatomy animation
Volcano Sensor WEb -
Volcano World -
Volcanoes Online -
Volcanoes--Can We Predict Volcanic Eruptions--Interactive -
Volcanoes--Images etc -

Plate Tectonics

Mining

An Introduction to Geology and HardRock Mining--Online Text -
Cement and Concrete Basics--Portland Cement Association -
Coal Mining -
Coal Mining and Reclamation Quiz -
Copper MIning UK -
Cyanide Mining in the US -
Diamond Facts -
Earthworks: Protecting Communities and Environment from Impacts of mining, digging an drilling -
End Mountaintop Removal--Action and Resource Center - Google earth site
Future Mining Methods--manitoba -
Gems and the Environment-Balancing Benefits and Costs -
Gold Fever Giant Gold Machines -
Hard Rock Mining Contamination -
Historical Statistics for US mines -
Infomine_Mining Intelligence and Technology -
Maps of Abandoned Mines in the West -
Mine Reclamation -
Mineral Information Institute - Good ed materials
Minerals and Metals: A World to Discover--Canada -
Minesite - MineSite is a new InfoMine initiative designed to bring you in-depth, up-to-date, intelligence on world mining operations, from mine contacts ... to production statistics ... to supplier information ... even climate and topography are included.
Mining the Motherlode: Hard Rock Mining Process -
NPR-Sago Mine Disaster 1/06 -
National Mining Association -
No Dirty Gold -
Office of Surface Mining--Dept of Interior -
Peru-the Cruse of Inca Gold--10/05 -
Photo Gallery of Hard Rock Mine Contamination -
Reform Hard Rock Mining--1872 Mining Law -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act-Wikipedia -
Surface Mining Law -
US Gold - Current gold price
USGS mine drainage activities -
USGS--Commodity info 2006--pdf -
USGS: MIneral Resources Program -
the Mining News - News on Mining's Impacts from Communities and Activists Worldwide

Tsunamis

California Tsunami Research Center - Check out Interactive map
International Tsunami Information -
NOAA: Tsunami -
NOAA: West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center - Also experience a virtual earthquake
NOVA: Wave that shook the World - Check out virtual interactives
Pacific Marine Environmental lab: Tsunami Research Program -
Pacific Tsunami Museum -
Savage Earth: Waves of Destruction -
Tsunami Data at National Geophysical Data Center - Check out Arc View Interactive maps
Tsunami Visualizations -
Tsunami-- University of Washington -
West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center -

Activity Sites

Surface Distance Between Two Points of Latitude and Longitude - For Tsunami calculations
Convert Lat/Long between decimal and minutes -
Google Maps Latitude, Longitude Popup - Find the lat and long of any location
Discover Our Earth--Interactive Mapping Tools/Virtual Experiments/3D graphics - Isotasy, tectonics, viscosity, Mt St helens, earthquakes
Dynamic Earth Interactive - Delve into the earth's interior, learn about its tectonic plates and their movements, and discover how mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes are formed.
National Geographic Map Machine - Powered by ESRI--Find your Location
Tectonics 1.0--interactive puzzle - Remake Pangea

Content by Jane Orbuch, jorbuch@slvhs.slv.k12.ca.us
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Last revised Sun Oct 25 11:43:56 US/Pacific 2009