EARTHQUAKE ANIMATION LINKS
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http://www.wwnorton.com/college/geo/egeo/animations/ch8.htm#2
Seismic Wave Motion
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/geo/egeo/animations/ch8.htm#3
How a Seismograph Works
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/geo/egeo/animations/ch8.htm#1
Types of Faults
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/
Tsunami generation from the 2004 M=9.0 Sumatra Earthquake
http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/activezone/media/vid-worldseries.html
Dramatic footage from the opening game of the 1989 World Series, as the
Loma Prieta quake strikes, bringing the broadcast to an end.
http://www.baird.com/baird/en_html/indian_ocean/indianocean.html
Information on the December 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
http://vcourseware.calstatela.edu/
Virtual Courseware
http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~jibarry
Illustrations of earthquake wave movements
http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~jibarry/newAnimations/NormalRupture.html
Animation of a normal fault rupture
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/earthquakes/main.html
Animation of earthquake as it travels outwards from its starting point through
the earth
http://pat.jpl.nasa.gov/public/RIVA/movies/northridge_nologo.mpg
Postseismic Surface deformation after Northridge Earthquake
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/wave-primary.html
Primary wave animation
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/wave-secondary.html
Secondary wave animation
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/wave-surface.html
Surface wave animation
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/tsunami-spread.html
Tsunami spread animation
http://www.structural-geology-portal.com/menuanimation.html
Simulations of fault and crack propagation
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/deformation/modeling/animations/
Evolution of expected seismicity rate at Landers 1975-2010
http://home1.gte.net/bridavis/eq.htm
Earthquake animations
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~donovan/geol101/animations/41.swf
Earthquake-Tsunami animation
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/low_res_agif.html
Model of 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/office/baagaard/reasearch/animations/animations.html
thrust earthquake with Surface rupture -- vertical slice
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/1906.html
Bay Area Tsunamis: Are we at risk?
http://quake.usgs.gov/research/deformation/modeling/teaching/
The Earthquake Machine
http://www.sf06simulation.org/geology
Model including features such as faults and underground basins that can
divert or concentrate a quakes force.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/kap/carrizo/pano/wallace_crk.htm
San Andreas Fault Animation
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/collections/SanFran1906.html
Animation related to 1906 SF Earthquake
http://www.westhamptonbeach.k12.ny.us/teachers/cohen/sciweb/earthscience/tsunami.htm
Tsunami Videos