Tsunami Visualizations part of Hazards:Visualization Collections
Compiled by John McDaris and Monica Bruckner at SERC. This page presents animations and movies related to tsunamis and their effects on the physical and human landscape. Browse the complete set of Visualization ...

Converging Tectonic Plates Demonstration part of Geodesy:Activities
Shelley E Olds, EarthScope Consortium
During this demo, participants use springs and a map of the Pacific Northwest with GPS vectors to investigate the stresses and surface expression of subduction zones, specifically the Juan de Fuca plate diving beneath the North American plate.

Earthquake Epicenter Location Exercise using Google Earth and OneNote part of Geophysics:Workshop 07:Geophysics Activities
Jeffrey Nunn, Louisiana State University
Students are provided with data from 4 seismograms which are used to plot the epicenter of an earthquake using OneNote to pick the P-S wave arrival gap and Google Earth to plot the circles which intersect at the ...

Hazards Webinar Series: March 16, 2012 part of Hazards:Webinars
What's Shaking at SCEC? Education and Outreach Resources for Earthquake Preparedness -- Mark Benthien, Education Director, Southern Califormia Earthquake Center (SCEC) Time - 12:00 pm Pacific | 1:00 pm ...

2004 Asian Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Project part of Visualization:Examples
Char Bezanson
Students are employees of a unit of the United Nations responsible for coordinating disaster relief after a major disaster (the 2004 Asian Earthquake and Tsunami) occurs. The agency needs to understand the ...

Introduction to Volcanology part of Course Design:Goals Database
Erouscilla Joseph, University of the West Indies
The course will introduce students to Plate tectonics and volcanoes; including the processes that takes place at active volcanoes (eruptive mechanisms, effusive and explosive volcanism); methods and instrumentation ...

What are Volcanic Hazards? part of Videos:Video Gallery
In this video we will describe the most common types of volcanic hazards associated with a volcanic eruption. We begin by considering the threat of an eruption from a Cascade Range volcano for citizens of Portland and Seattle. These are examples of composite volcanoes. Eruptions of these types of volcanoes produce tephra, lahars, pyroclastic flows and lava. Tephra represents the debris blasted into the air and can range in size from tiny glass shards to large blocks blasted out of the volcanic cone. When tephra combines with water it forms lahars that can transport all sizes of debris. Fast moving, toxic pyroclastic flows are among the most dangerous volcanic hazards. Lava plays a relatively modest role in eruptions of composite volcanoes but is a common product of shield volcanoes such as those in Hawaii.

Natural Hazards on the Island of Hawaii part of Environmental Geology:Activities
Andrew Greene, Hawaii Pacific University
In this jigsaw activity, students discover four different aspects of natural hazards on the Island of Hawaii. The goal for students is to design a hazard zone map that combines these four topics and that could be ...

Earthquakes part of Hazards:Earthquakes
Event Pages 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami February 2010 Chile Earthquake January 2010 Haiti Earthquake 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Earthquakes affect ...

Visualizations Related to Geophysics part of Geophysics
The following pages were developed as a part of the Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations workshop and website. Each page presents quality visualizations on a particular topic in the geosciences. You can browse ...