Mazz Media
Earthquake
This live-action video program is about earthquakes. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics...
Curated Video
Tectonic Plates
This brief video introduces the viewer to tectonic plates on Earth. The lithosphere and Subduction are discussed.
Wonderscape
Science Kids: All About Volcanoes
This video is about volcanoes. It explains how volcanoes are formed, the different parts of a volcano, the types of volcanoes, and notable volcanic eruptions. The video also includes review questions to test the viewer's understanding of...
Curated Video
Earthquake rattles already battered Puerto Rico
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico Tuesday morning, a day after another powerful shock on the island that’s still recovering from devastating hurricanes in 2017.
Curated Video
What can the 2019 election results tell us about 2020? | The Bottom Line
With one year to go before US presidential elections, where do the major parties stand?
Curated Video
Inside Deadly Myanmar Earthquake | Living On A Fault Line | WION Wideangle
Rescuers race against time after 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar. Thailand too has been affected by the earthquake. As of 2nd April, the death toll has crossed 2800. Many experts believed the death toll could touch...
Curated Video
Dozens Of Earthquakes Rattle Northern California
Residents along the coast of a northern California town feared the quake would trigger a tsunami.
Khan Academy
Plate Tectonics: Difference Between Crust and Lithosphere, Cosmology and Astronomy
Explore the tectonic plates that make up the surface of our Earth and their movement, as well as the terminology of the Earth's structure.
Curated OER
Mid Ocean Ridges, Volcanoes, and the Arctic
Journey underwater for a better look at the tectonic plates and the volcanoes they create. Although this video is slightly dry, it is packed with valuable information and easy-to-understand visual images. Consider using a portion to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Plate Tectonics: Further Evidence
This video segment [2:12] adapted from A Science Odyssey uses animation and archival footage to provide an overview of the theory of plate tectonics.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Himalayan Megaquake Future Earthquake Potential
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the Gorkha region killed more than 8,000 people in 2015. Learn how historical records and GPS technology can predict earthquakes in the future in the Himalayan region. Additional resources, a background...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Elastic Rebound on High Friction Strike Slip Fault
Animation shows the buildup of stress along the margin of two stuck plates that are trying to slide past one another deforming rock. [33]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: Journey to the Earth's Interior
Material to begin an exploration of the Earth's interior. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on igneous rock, seismic waves, and the Earth's layers, and ideas for teaching this unit in...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Alaska: Tectonics and Earthquakes
Alaskan tectonics are dominated by Pacific-North American plate interaction. This animation discusses the range of tectonic activity from megathrust earthquakes to accretion of geologic terranes. [8:40]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Earthquake Machine: Graphing Time vs. Strain
Animation illustrates the buildup and release of strain in locked and slow slip zones. [0:28]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Subduction Zone: Relative Motion With No Friction
See how converging oceanic and continental tectonic plates react to one another.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr Videos: Skunk Bear: The Lava Affair Field Trip!
Two guys in upstate New York make their own lava in a giant cauldron. They use it to demonstrate a volcanic eruption to students and visitors and to create art. [7:54]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Elastic Rebound Demonstration Using a Yardstick
See a scientist talk about elasticity and brittle material using a yardstick as a mechanical analog for the lithosphere, and to show how stress is stored in-between tectonic plates. [1:57]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Japan's Earthquakes & Tectonic Setting
This animation addresses regional and local tectonics, earthquake occurrences and historic earthquakes, crustal fault earthquakes (Kobe, 1995), megathrust earthquakes (Tohoku-Oki, 2011), and tsunamis. [10:04]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Continental Collision: India Asia
This animation shows a cut-globe view of the continental collision between India and Eurasia from 60 million years ago to the present. [0:06]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Earth Videos: What Is an Earthquake?
Narrated animation explaining the forces inside the Earth that can lead to earthquakes. (Length: 1 min. 39 sec.)
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Fault: Left Lateral Strike Slip Fault With No Friction
Animation demonstrates left-lateral fault strike-slip fault with little or no friction along fault contact. [9]