This outstanding website provides an excellent variety of hands-on earthquake activities to help you understand what causes earthquakes.

The basics of earthquake science including factual information about how and why they happen. Also includes some hands-on activities and experiments for students.

This university consortium provides on-going, current information on seismic activity happening all over the world. Of special interest is the Seismic Monitor. Open this page to a full screen to monitor global earthquake activity in real...