At FEMA for Kids learn how to measure earthquakes, practice earthquake
disaster math, and learn about historic earthquakes.
Understanding
Earthquakes
Watch a video clip of how an earthquake occurs
and read about the history of seismology at this site.
USGS:
Earthquake for Kids
Learn facts about earthquakes,
read about being geophysicist,
and try some online activities at this fun earthquake site.
1906 The
California earthquake of April 18, 1906 (San Francisco)
The introduction is taken from the Carnegie Report, reprinted in 1969.
1989 Loma Prieta
Earthquake Photos
View photographs from the 1989 earthquake that
shook the San Francisco Bay area.
1989
Loma Prieta Earthquake: Earth Science resources