Tectonics Links

General

Earthquakes and Faults

• Earthquake Country Alliance
  All sorts of great information, including videos and pamphlets.
• DRAFT Provisional Fault Map for San Diego/Tijuana Earthquake Scenario
  "clickable" map of known western San Diego County (and offshore) faults
• Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada
  Best resource for finding out what's going on right now, and for the last week.
• USGS Earthquake Scenario Map (BSSC 2014)
  What are the odds?
• Recent Earthquakes List and Map
  'fuss with' it, it takes patience at first!
• Significant Earthquakes and Faults Historical Earthquakes & Significant Faults in Southern CA
  Southern California Earthquake Data Center at Caltech
• Volcanic and Seismic Hazards on the Island of Hawaii
• Southern California Earthquake Data Center (a.k.a. "SCEC")
• University of Memphis
  Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI)
• Saint Louis University Earthquake Center
  Information about mid-continent earthquakes
• Latitude/Longitude Distance Calculator

Volcanoes

• Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution
  Download the Google Earth Holocene Volcanoes Placemark!
• How Volcanoes Work (Vic Camp, SDSU)
• Volcano World --- formerly at U. of North Dakota, my alma mater
  now at Oregon State University
• California Volcano Observatory (CalVO)
• Volcano Cam - Live Mt. St. Helens shot
• Mt. St. Helens LANDSAT images, 1979 - 2013
• Mount St. Helens Science and Learning Center
• Stromboli Net (Italy)

Visualizing the Earth - Map and Air/Space Photo and Digital Imaging Sites

• Google Earth Software - Download It - Try It - You'll Like It !!!
• KML Geology (SDSU)
  Using Google Earth in Geology
• Educational Multimedia Visualization Center of the Dept. Geological Sciences, U.C.S.B
  (Tanya Atwater's WONDERFUL plate tectonics animations!)
• NOAA's Geomagnetic Declination Calculator
• Cornell U's Digital Earth
• DLESE-The Digital Library for Earth Science Education
• Color Landform Atlas of the United States
  (Johns Hopkins University)
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA),
  formerly known as National Imagery and Mapping Agency
  (before that, the Agency formerly known as Defense Mapping)
• Map Town -
  A Very Complete Online Store in Calgary, Alberta
• MapQuest - The original on-line location finder
• NASA WorldWind -
  the forerunner of Google Earth, in many ways
• Earth From Space (Johnson Space Center)
• Destination Earth: NASA's Earth Science Enterprise

Regional Geology

• San Diego Reader Roam-O-Rama Articles, by Jerry Schad R.I.P.
• Geology of the Grand Canyon
• Los Angeles Area Geology
  (formerly Geology of Santa Clarita and environs)
• Arizona Geology Virtual Tourist
• The Geologic Story of the Great Plains (PDF)