Introduction to Earthquakes

Course Topics

Required Textbooks

Miscellaneous Notes, Figures and Information:

General Earthquake Information
Resources for Teachers
Preparing for Earthquakes
Maps and Locations
- Seismicity in and around Missouri (A map of regional earthquake locations)
- Recent Global Seismicity Information (List and Map)
- 1996 Earthquake Activity Summary Map
Special Earthquake Sites
- The 1906 California Earthquake

Course Topics:

Science and Nature
What to do during an earthquake
What we feel in an earthquake
Where and Why earthquakes Occur
- Geologic (Deep) Time
- Plate Tectonics
Measuring earthquakes - Seismograms
Exploring the Earth's interior
Faults and earthquakes
Elastic rebound
Earthquake size
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Earthquake forecasting
Eathquakes and buildings
Reducing earthquake hazards

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Texts :

Bagnall, N. H., On Shaky Ground - The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, 114 pages, 1996.

Bolt, Bruce A., Earthquakes, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1993, 331 pages.

Vogel, S., Naked Earth -The New Geophysics, The Penguin Group, New York, NY, 217 pages, 1995.

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August 1996