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 ...

Earthquake Hazards: The next big one? part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop:Activities
John Taber, EarthScope Consortium
In this activity, students explore of the concept of probability and the distribution of earthquake sizes, and then work to understand how earthquake hazards are described by probabilities. Students then work in ...

2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami part of Hazards:Events
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 8.9-9 megathrust earthquake off the north eastern coast of Japan triggered a large tsunami, with wave heights reaching up to 10m. These two events caused widespread devastation and destruction in Japan, including washing away entire cities as well as damaging the country's nuclear power plants, thus causing potential meltdowns.

2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami part of Hazards:Events
This page presents visualizations and other resources related to the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami. This event constituted one of the largest disasters in history, causing the deaths of over 230,000 people in fourteen countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (98 ft) high.

Seismology with smart phones and Raspberry Shake geophone systems part of Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Robert Stewart, University of Houston-University Park
This activity introduces students to the concept of vibration recording and the monitoring of seismic shaking. The basic concept is to use motion-sensing devices to understand the character of vibrations and ...

Exploring Earthquake Hazards with GIS part of Geophysics:Workshop 07:Geophysics Activities
Constantin Cranganu, CUNY Brooklyn College
This activity is a straightforward application of GIS to assessment of earthquake hazards. The students get more modeling skills with GIS and a better understanding of earthquake hazards.

Measuring Ground Motion with GPS: How GPS Works part of Geodesy:Activities
Shelley E Olds, EarthScope Consortium
With printouts of typical GPS velocity vectors found near different tectonic boundaries and models of a GPS station, demonstrate how GPS work to measure ground motion.GPS velocity vectors point in the direction that a GPS station moves as the ground it is anchored to moves. The length of a velocity vector corresponds to the rate of motion. GPS velocity vectors thus provide useful information for how Earth's crust deforms in different tectonic settings.

An Introduction to Seismic Interpretation Using Open Source Software (OpendTect) part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Jeannette Wolak Luna, Tennessee Technological University
This is a series of three lab exercises integrating seismic interpretation and sedimentary geology. Each lab uses freely available software from dGB Earth Sciences, OpendTect. The seismic volume is the F3 Block in ...

Energy budget of orogenesis and implications of a lazy Earth part of Courses:Structural Geology and Tectonics:2022 Structure and Tectonics Forum:Abstracts
Michele Cooke, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Michele Cooke, UMass Amherst Juliet Crider, U Washington Brian Yanites, U Indiana Kristen Morell, UC Santa Barbara Leif Karlstrom, U Oregon Abstract We teach our introductory students that crustal deformation is a ...

Geodesy Visualizations part of Geodesy
Jump to: Geodesy Basics | Altimetry | Lidar | GPS/GNSS | Gravity | SAR/InSAR | SfM | Other Geodesy Basics × Animation: Brief History of Geodesy × Video: 9 Impacts of Geodesy × Animation: What is ...