The Internet is an information tool for everyone, especially for students. The information that one finds may be very current, but may lack detail and even be in error. It is important that one use more than one data source to research a subject.
The large earthquakes in Turkey in August and November of 1999 and in Taiwan in September caused major destruction. If you desire information and even photographs as soon as you hear about the disaster, access a major Internet service. The main page of http://www.yahoo.com/ has a link to News: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/ where you will find today's headlines.
If you wish to learn about basic earthquake science enter the Science categories at http://www.yahoo.com/
The following tabulation will start you on your way to learning more about earthquakes:
American Red Cross - What to do during an earthquake
http://www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/guide/earth.html
Introduction to Earthquakes - Lecture notes and links
http://www.eas.slu.edu/People/CJAmmon/HTML/Classes/IntroQuakes99/EAS193_fHome.html
FEMA for KIDS - Information, projects
http://www.fema.gov/kids/quake.htm
Earthquake Hazards and Preparedness - Good links and information
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/hazprep/
EQE - Information and photos
http://www.eqe.com/index.html
National Earthquake Information Center - The USGS people who locate big earthquakes
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
Seismological Society of America - Education links
http://www.seismosoc.org/
Volcano Page - Photos and animations
http://www.aist.go.jp/GSJ/~jdehn/v-home.htm
EQNET - Earthquake Information Network
http://www.eqnet.org/
NSF Funded Earthquake Centers
http://mae.ce.uiuc.edu/
http://peer.berkeley.edu
http://mceer.buffalo.edu/default.asp
http://www.scec.org/
Robert B. Herrmann
Charles J. Ammon
Saint Louis University
READINGS IN EARTHQUAKE HISTORY AND SCIENCE
General Earthquake References:
Introductory Texts on Earthquakes
Bolt, B. A., Inside the Earth - Evidence from Earthquakes, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 191 pages, 1982.
Bolt, B. A., Earthquakes, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 331 pages, 1993.
Bolt, B. A., Earthquakes and geological discovery, (Scientific American Library), New York, 229 pages, 1993.
Brumbaugh, D. S. Earthquakes, Science and Society, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 251 pages, 1998.
Kovach, R. L., Earth's Fury, An Introduction to Natural Hazards and Disasters, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 214 pages, 1995.
Gere, J. M., and H. C. Shah, Terra Non Firma, Understanding and Preparing for Earthquakes, Stanford Alumni Assiciation, Stanford, California, 203 pages, 1984.
Richter, C. F., Elementary Seismology, W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 768 papers, 1958
Advanced Texts on Seismology and Earthquakes
Lay, T., and T. C. Wallace, Modern Global Seismology, Academic Press, San Diego, California, 517 pages, 1995.
Scholtz, C. H., Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 439 pages, 1989.
New Madrid Specific Publications
Fuller,M. L., The New Madrid Earthquake (A Scientific Factual Field Account), U. S. Geological Survey, 120 pages, 1912.
Penick, J. L., The New Madrid Earthquakes (Revised Edition), University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 176 pages, 1981.
Bagnall, N. H., On Shaky Ground, The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 113 pages, 1996.
Charles J. Ammon
Saint Louis University