Earthquakes
Websites & Articles
Teacher Planet-Earthquakes/Lesson Plans
According to the United States Geological Survey each year there are more than 10,000 earth quakes and in many years the number reaches above 30,000. That's a lot of movement! The good news is that most of those earthquakes measure 4.9 or less in magnitude and aren't really felt by humans...
USGS-The Science of Earthquakes
An earthquake is what happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another. The surface where they slip is called the fault or fault plane. The location below the earth’s surface where the earthquake starts is called the hypocenter, and the location directly above it on the surface of the earth is called the epicenter...
Informational Videos
Earthquakes and how they affect our planet
Gram Cracker Demonstration (can use as an experiment in class)