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Earthquake Hazards Program Information on earthquake activity, earthquake science, and earthquake hazard reduction with links to news reports, products and services, educational resources for teachers, glossary, and current U.S. earthquake activity map. (Score: 2.070)

Earthquake: Did you feel it? Project to collect information about ground shaking associated with significant earthquakes. Provides a questsionnaire to fill out what you felt following an earthquake in the United States or in other countries. (Score: 2.070)

National Earthquake Information Center; World Data Center for Seismology, Denver Information on world earthquake activity with links to facts and lists on large earthquakes, earthquake e-mail notification, hazards and preparedness, educational links, news and highlights and other seismic information. (Score: 2.000)

Recent worldwide earthquake activity Near real-time list of earthquakes recently occurring anywhere in the world. (Score: 2.000)

Earthquake Hazards Program - Central and Eastern U.S. Information on earthquakes in central and eastern United States with links to earthquake monitoring, published products, recent earthquake information, discussion group, and current projects. (Score: 1.287)

Earthquake Hazards Program - Pacific Northwest Information on earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest area with links to latest quakes with form to submit a felt report online or see results of other reports, online publications and online data (LIDAR). (Score: 1.043)

Current earthquake information National Earthquake Information Center provides current information on worldwide earthquake activities with links to maps and other earthquake data. (Score: 1.000)

Current earthquake maps National Earthquake Information Center provides maps to locate current earthquakes worldwide. (Score: 1.000)

Current world seismicity Global map of recent world earthquakes and earthquakes within last 30 days with location and magnitude. (Score: 1.000)

Diatoms: applications Use of diatoms in biostratigraphy,coastal and estuarine studies, paleoceanology, paleoliminology, earthquake studies, environmental quality and forensic studies. Includes listing of USGS diatom projects and links to other diatom websites. (Score: 1.000)

Earthquake information by region Information on earthquake activity, maps, lists of significant earthquakes, earthquake preparedness, and earthquake research arranged by region. (Score: 1.000)

Earthquake information by topic Information on earthquakes by topic including faults, tsunami, seismic waves, and plate tectonics. (Score: 1.000)

Earthquake search Search interface allowing searches of earthquake databases by various parameters including date, depth, intensity, area, and magnitude and download data in a variety of formats. (Score: 1.000)

Earthquakes Online booklet on earthquake history, earthquake occurrences, measuring earthquakes, causes, relationship of volcanoes and earthquakes and earthquake prediction. (Score: 1.000)

Earthquakes: Frequently Asked Questions Links to information sites that answer a wide variety of questions (FAQs) about earthquakes, such as dictionary of terms, earthquake activity and probablilities, common myths, faults, plate tectonics, and earthquake measurement techniques. (Score: 1.000)

Last thirty days of earthquake activity from the Quick Epicenter Determinations List (QED) National Earthquake Information Center provides a map and dates, coordinates, depths, magnitudes, and regions of worldwide earthquakes for the previous month from the Quick Epicenter Determination List (QED) (Score: 1.000)

Real-time seismogram displays Description of seismograms and how they are produced by drum recorders and electronic instruments with real-time seismograms for Northern California and Long Valley, California and representative seismograms for types of earthquake activity. (Score: 1.000)

Seismicity maps of recent earthquake activity in the world Global map of earthquakes and earthquakes by regions. Link to worldwide earthquakes (Score: 1.000)

Taking the Earths pulse: understanding earthquake hazards around the world Description of the development of a network of seismometers that record earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and nuclear explosions throughout the world to monitor natural and technological events that threaten our planets population. (Score: 1.000)

This dynamic planet: World map of volcanoes, earthquakes, impact craters, and plate tectonics Online world map with booklet (PDF format) giving an account of plate tectonics, volcanology, earthquake activity, and impact craters. (Score: 1.000)

Tsunamis & earthquakes Homepage for tsunami research with links to information and images on basics, tsunamis in the Pacific Northwest, the 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami, research on specific tsunamis, and animations in various formats. (Score: 1.000)

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Definition: Time, location, severity, and mechanism of earthquake events, including the frequency and history of events in a given area.

Used for: earthquake activity maps, earthquake occurrence maps, earthquake seismology, ground motion maps, seismic hazard maps, shaking maps (seismic)