A Quiz, Puzzles and Answers to Your Common Earthquake Questions...
from U.S. Geological Survey
Virtual visit to a mountain range
As a Californian, my life has been punctuated by earthquakes. My earliest temblor memory is the 1971 Sylmar quake. On that auspicious day I began my first job as a high school graduate. In the 1994 Northridge earthquake, my mother lost the house I grew up
Created for the ten-year anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, Life Along the Faultline offers earthquake science, advances in structural engineering, personal perspectives, and a look back to the great San Francisco shake of 1906.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is in charge of helping people before and after a disaster.
"We only hear about earthquakes in the news every once in a while, but they are actually an everyday occurrence on our planet.