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Alaskan Volcanoes & Hazards Presentation
This lecture and associated animations give a basic introduction to Alaskan volcanoes, volcanic hazards, and volcano monitoring.

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology, Engineering, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards
Resource Type: Lecture, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
Grade Level: General Public, Middle (6-8), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Quantitative Skills: Arithmetic/Computation, Graphs, Vectors and Matrices
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Data:GPS/GNSS, Geophysics GPS/GNSS, Data:Seismic
Collection Source: ANGLE

Field Trip Guide: The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami--Consequences of Living on the Leading Edge in Alaska
This is a guide to a field trip that visits sites in Anchorage, Girdwood, and Whittier Alaska. The focus of the trip is the understand the science and societal impacts of the 1964 Alaska Mag 9.2 earthquake as well as the ongoing EarthScope research on geohazards to help us better plan for future events. Participants practice a tsunami evacuation walk as way to foster discussion of preparedness actions and challenges.

Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Coastal Hazards:Tsunami, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting, Earthquakes, Geoscience, Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Engineering
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Images/Illustrations, Lecture
Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Informal, General Public
Quantitative Skills: Graphs
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Data:GPS/GNSS, Geophysics GPS/GNSS
Collection Source: ANGLE