Learning+about+Earthquakes

Learning About Earthquakes

Please add here any online sites where you have found valuable information about earthquakes. Note that this is divided into sections for the Canterbury Earthquake, other NZ earthquakes, earthquakes in other parts of the world and other general information sites.

Canterbury Earthquake information sites NB - it was wider than just Christchurch but that was the largest population centre affected

GeoNet Here's a link to Geonuclear Science's website which has lots of information about the earthquake. GNS is the organisation that monitors all the earthquakes in NZ. They have made videos and have maps and all sorts of great material on this site. If you feel an earthquake, GNS wants to know about it. Please fill in a FELT REPORT so they can gather more information about what is happening in our shaky isles

A class blog from Appleby School with some links @http://moturoa.blogspot.com/2010/09/christchurch-earthquake.html



 A time-lapse visualisation of the quake and aftershocks, which updates periodically from the GNS data to pick up new quakes. @http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

TVNZ - http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news Newspapers - http://www.stuff.co.nz/ NZ Civil Defence site @http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/memwebsite.nsf Photo gallery @http://www.crashbang.co.nz/quake040910/index.html Rebuilding ChCh blog [] [|Tectonics of the M7 earthquake near Christchurch, New Zealand] Geo Net: @http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/

**Breaking News - Earthquake has occurred in Hawkes Bay on 7th September 2010** @http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4103576/Quake-strikes-central-Hawkes-Bay

**Other NZ Earthquakes**
 * **LEARNZ GeoHazards Virtual Field Trip** May 2010**
 * Keywords: earthquake research, earthquakes, emergency management, faults, geology, hazards, NZ's geologic past, planning for earthquakes, plate tectonics, seismic monitoring.
 * Curriculum: Science: Planet Earth and Beyond Levels 4-8; Social Sciences: Social Studies Levels 4-5, Geography Levels 6-8.
 * Background info, activities, diaries, panoramic images, videos, audio files, Q&A files
 * Go to [] (for NZ teachers - if not a LEARNZ registered teacher register here (it's free) [|www.learnz.org.nz/register])
 * Also the 'Coast to Coast' (August 2010) virtual field trip has good information. Keywords: folding and faulting, geology, landforms, mountain building, NZ's geologic past, plate tectonics, rock types, the rock cycle.

Napier earthquake in 1931 @http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/kids/nzdisasters/napier.asp []

**Earthquakes in other parts of the world**

**General earthquake information sites** How stuff works http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/earthquake6.htm http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/earthquake-profile/ Safety tips http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/earthquake-safety-tips/ Make your own earthquake simulation http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/forces-of-nature.html?section=t Te Pataka Matihiko Digistore: Earthquake Collection http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/why.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4126809.stm [] A video about how earthquakes happen- from the BBC

Turn on the sound to have this site read the information to us. ||= **__BBC News Site Re Earthquakes - Image has clickable links__** Click To Read More From the BBC On The Christchurch Earthquake ||
 * = Beat The Quake ||= __**Shake Rattle and Slide -**__
 * [[image:Beat_the_quake.png width="282" height="220" link="@http://www.dropcoverholdon.org/beatthequake/"]] || ZZZZZZ [[image:shake_rattle_roll.jpg width="393" height="217" link="@http://urbanext.illinois.edu/earth/85.cfm"]] ZZZZZZ  || ZZZZZZ [[image:Rescue.jpg width="389" height="197" align="right" link="@http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8459653.stm"]] ||

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