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Earth and Space Science

Earthquakes

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NOVA

RESOURCE	GRADE LEVEL	MEDIA TYPE
Birth of a Tsunami This video excerpt from NOVA: “Japan’s Killer Quake” shows how an undersea earthquake produces a tsunami.	6-12	Video
Earthquake! When Plates Collide This video excerpt from NOVA explains the concept of plate tectonics and how it causes earthquakes.	6-12	Video
Earthquake Prediction This video segment adapted from NOVA tells the tragic story of two Japanese seismologists who disagreed about the threat of earthquakes in the early twentieth century. Today, seismologists in California offer residents a probability of risk that an earthquake might occur.	6-12	Video
Earthquakes: Los Angeles In this video segment adapted from NOVA, animations are used to show how the hills around Los Angeles were formed by earthquakes at small thrust faults that extend outward from the larger San Andreas fault.	6-12	Video
Earthquakes: San Francisco The history of earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay area is plotted on a digital map and analyzed in this video segment adapted from NOVA.	6-12	Video
Earthquakes: The Prehistoric Record In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a geologist digs a trench along the San Andreas Fault to reveal three thousand years of earthquake history. Information from the layers of sediment may help geologists to predict earthquakes.	3-12	Video
Earthquakes: The Seismograph This video segment adapted from NOVA uses historical illustrations, photographs, and animations to explain how seismographs work, the difference between P and S waves, and the Richter scale.	6-12	Video
Mount Pinatubo: Predicting a Volcanic Eruption This video segment adapted from NOVA relates the dramatic story of vulcanologists trying to predict the timing of the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.	6-12	Video
Mount Pinatubo: The Aftermath of a Volcanic Eruption This video segment adapted from NOVA features footage of the aftermath of the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines, including falling ash and mud flows.	3-12	Video
Volcanism at Yellowstone This video excerpt from NOVA explains why the Yellowstone supervolcano is located in the middle of a tectonic plate.	6-12	Video