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The home page of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazards program, with plentiful links to a variety of information, is at The primary USGS site for the 2004 Sunda Trench quake The USGS has earthquake-related publications online; some are exclusively online, including "Earthquakes" at and "The San Andreas Fault" at Some relevant USGS fact sheets also available online include: "The Parkfield experiment—capturing what happens in an earthquake" "Is a powerful quake likely to strike in the next 30 years?" (analysis of San Francisco-area risk) "Rupture in south-central Alaska—The Denali Fault earthquake of 2002" "Monitoring earthquake shaking in buildings to reduce loss of life and property" Tsunami simulations and links to many tsunami-related sites The International Tsunami Information Center Information on the Canadian National Earthquake Hazards Program—including a link to information on the use of seismology in monitoring compliance with the nuclear test ban treaty—can be found at "Earthquakes Canada" The Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program has unveiled its final report (in 1999) and global seismic-risk maps at Seismological Society of America home page The National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering maintains an online database of over 10,000 images of photos and art works (some hundreds of years old) relating to earthquakes. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has funded EQNET, a link to many related sites, at The Advanced National Seismic System is designed to improve U.S. ability to respond to earthquake, volcanic, and tsunami disasters The information-rich sites inspired by the centennial of the 1906 San Franciso earthquake: A joint venture of the USGS, California Institute of Technology, and California Division of Mines and Geology to create ShakeMaps of earthquake intensity Have you experienced an earthquake? Help create a realtime intensity map: |