Interactive Earth Science Animations
These educational animations contain text, graphics, and video links on earthquakes, volcanoes, and earth structure. Produced by Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Hazards
How will 3 buildings, engineered equally, on different bedrock react to an earthquake?
Plate Tectonics
How do Earth’s tectonic plates interact?
Do subducting plates slide smoothly past one another?
How is stress stored between tectonic plates?
Do faults break all at once, or in many short segments?
What are the 4 basic classes of faults?
What happens when the crust is stretched?
Earth Structure
Same earthquake, different stations; why do the seismograms look different?
How do we capture the motion of an earthquake?
How do earthquakes reveal secrets of Earth’s interior?
Why do seismic waves travel a curving path through the Earth?
How do P & S waves give evidence for a liquid outer core?
Can an earthquake be compared to a drop of water on a pond?
Earthquakes
Animations about the New Madrid Seismic Zone & earthquakes of 1811–1812
How many different ways can an earthquake shake us?
Where do travel-time graphs come from?
How can you model earthquakes in the classroom?
Volcanoes
Subduction and Volcanoes COMING SOON!
Interactive Animations
General Basin and Range
Dynamic Planet- Earthquakes & Volcanoes Tectonics
How Are Earthquakes Located- Walk Run Activity Earthquakes
Significant Earthquakes from 2001-2011 Long Valley Caldera
Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest vs Sumatra Subduction Zones
Northwest Plate Rollover Chile vs Sumatra
Subduction Rollover Reveal Pacific Northwest vs Sumatra
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