Welcome to the SCEC Borehole Initiative Earthquake Outreach Display

This page will enable you to navigate to many sites on the World Wide Web (WWW) that provide information about earthquakes, seismology and geophysics. It will also provide you with information about other things that can be done with this outreach display. Notice that each section has a suggested grade range. This is for guidance only.

General Interest - Suggested Grade Range: K-12


Clickable fault map - LA Region

Clickable fault map

Clickable map of recent earthquakes

Ask A Geologist

Suggested Grade Range: K-5


Earthquake ABC's

Suggested Grade Range: 4-9

Suggested Grade Range: 7-12


WebQuakes
Near Real-Time Earthquake map.

Map of Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada

Map of Recent Earthquakes in the Los Angeles area

Map of Recent Earthquakes in San Francisco Bay area



Understanding Earthquakes

A page with general earthquake information and an earthquake quiz.

SCEC Education Module

A page with general earthquake information and an earthquake quiz.

Virtual Earthquake Courseware

A web application for explaining epicentral locations and Richter magnitudes.
Virtual CourseWare Home Page - more interesting virtual courseware

USGS Science Challenge

Admin page for Earthquake Display System