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	UCGS Earthquake Hazards Program - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ Find lots of information on earthquakes. Includes maps of recent activity.
	USGS: Earthquakes for Kids - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/kids/ Site features puzzles, games, science fair ideas, the online activity links, and virtual earthquake fly-bys.
	FEMA for Kids - http://www.fema.gov/kids/quake.htm The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is in charge of helping people before and after a disaster. Site includes stories, photos, rap music, games, experiments and quizzes.
	Savage Earth: Restless Planet - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/ Sections on learning from earthquakes, predicting quakes, and engineering quake-resistant buildings. Uses Flash animation and Quicktime video.
	Life Along the Faultline - http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/ Investigates life and science along California's fault lines. The site includes exclusive video from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

	Virtual Earthquake - http://www.sciencecourseware.org/eec/Earthquake/ An interactive exercise which demonstrates how seismologists pinpoint the epicenter of an earthquake using seismic waves.
	Understanding Earthquakes - http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/outreach/understanding/globe/globe.html Shows a simulation of where earthquakes with a 5.5 or larger magnitude have occurred in the last five years.
	Shake Table - http://www.jclahr.com/science/earth_science/shake/ Information on how to build a shake table to test the resistance of structures to earthquake shaking. Includes classroom photos of the table in action.
	Earthquakes - http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/quakes/interactives/makeaquake.html Earthquake simulator from the Learning Channel. Includes a list of the top ten quakes, technology, cities at risk, gallery of devastation, and "As the World Churns."
	What's Shaking - http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/quakes/intro/ Find out what earthquakes are, why they occur, and why we cannot predict them.

	Seismic Waves - http://www.gcse.com/waves/seismic.htm Basic introduction to seismic waves and how we use them to understand more about the inside of the earth.
	Earthquakes - http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/quakes.htm Learn what earthquakes are, how they occur, areas of the world frequented by earthquakes and the theory of continental drift which is often used to explain why earthquakes happen.

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