National Earthquake Information Center, USGS
Index page https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards
Index page for recent earthquakes https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
List of date, time and place of latest year’s large
earthquakes https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/browse/significant.php
Earthquakes glossary https://www.usgs.gov/glossary/earthquake-hazards-program
Largest recorded earthquakes (before the next
Cascadia event)
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/10-largest-earthquakes-ever-recorded-updated-2025
World earthquake distribution maps
https://www.usgs.gov/maps/map-showing-global-distribution-seismicity-1977-1986-prepared-national-earthquake-information
[click "view plate"]
1990-2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20080217045525/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/seismicity/
Earthquake lists and maps https://web.archive.org/web/20100606223721/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/
New York Earthquakes [USGS]
https://web.archive.org/web/20140128121305/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/?regionID=32®ion=New%20York
https://web.archive.org/web/20131021195417/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/new_york/history.php
Eastern North America Earthquakes [Weston Observatory] -
recommended, with good maps
https://web.archive.org/web/20160408001845/https://www2.bc.edu/%7Ekafka/Why_Quakes/why_quakes.html
Tsunami
NOAA PMEL Tsunami Research Program https://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/
Indonesian tsunami of 26/12/2004 index page
| open
ocean wave height | travel
time | animation
[7.3MB]
Satellite images of Sumatra [before/after tsunami comparisons] https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/indonesia/aceh-andaman-tsunami-imagery.htm
Pacific NW seismic network tsunami
page https://pnsn.org/education/earthquake-hazards/tsunami
University of Washington tsunami pages https://web.archive.org/web/20110314223451/http://www.ess.washington.edu/tsunami/index.html
USGS Tsunami page https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pcmsc/life-tsunami
(2011 at archive.org; compare previous rich content
with the present thin gruel)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110630112207/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/?topicID=34
Volcanos
Volcano World https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/
Volcanic Eruptions (2013 and older) https://volcanoworld.wordpress.com/category/volcano-activity-reports/
How Volcanos Work https://web.archive.org/web/20130101070840/http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/
Smithsonian Institution
Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network
https://volcano.si.edu/reports_bgvn.cfm
World volcanos map https://volcano.si.edu/resource_dynamicplanet.cfm
Global Holocene volcano list https://volcano.si.edu/volcanolist_holocene.cfm
Fossils; Dinosaurs
Fossils -
AMNH New York City - Paleontology Collections https://www.amnh.org/research/paleontology
- Invertebrate fossil collection (started with purchase of James
Hall's NY Museum collection)
https://www.amnh.org/research/paleontology/collections/fossil-invertebrate-collection
Smithsonian Institution https://naturalhistory.si.edu/exhibits/david-h-koch-hall-fossils-deep-time
Palaeos - the trace of life on Earth http://web.archive.org/web/20081012143244/http://www.palaeos.com/
or http://www.palaeos.com/default.htm
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology https://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
[k-12 resources] https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/education-outreach/k-12-resources/teacher-resources/
Dinosaurs -
AMNH New York City https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/saurischian-dinosaurs
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology https://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/whats_on/exhibits
The Dinosaur Hall, National Museum of Natural History
https://nhm.org/dinohall
Natural History Museum, London (activities for
schools) https://www.nhm.ac.uk/schools.html
Plate Tectonics and Earth History
Paleomap Project http://scotese.com/
Global Earth History https://web.archive.org/web/20110625093515/http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/globaltext.html
Sea Floor spreading, Mid-ocean ridges [plate
motion, spreading rate calculator]
Geological Time Scale http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html
New York Geology
New York Geology Resource Page (ended 2014) https://web.archive.org/web/20140330231821/http://newyork.geology-forum.com/
New York State geological maps https://nysm.nysed.gov/research-collections/geology/gis
New York State Oil & Gas well database https://esogis.nysm.nysed.gov/
Geological Maps of parts of eastern New York and Vermont (mostly
from University at Albany geology graduate students)
on this website: SUNYATaconicGeologicalMaps.html
The architecture and geology of the University at Albany campus sunyageo.html
Hubbert
Peak of Oil Production https://web.archive.org/web/20120104105915/http://www.hubbertpeak.com/summary.htm
The Association For The Study Of Peak Oil & Gas https://web.archive.org/web/20060204081557/http://www.peakoil.net/
Paleoclimate
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Paleoclimatology https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/what-is-paleoclimatology
2013 at archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20130216170453/http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
Paleoclimatology Education/outreach https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology/education-and-outreach
NOAA Paleoclimatology Data https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology
Global Warming (2013 at archive.org) https://web.archive.org/web/20130220233324/http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html
North American Drought (2013 at archive.org) https://web.archive.org/web/20130217003021/http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/drought/drght_home.html
Planetary Geology
Google Earth https://www.google.com/earth/about/versions/
(download necessary before viewing)
Google Maps in Space -
http://www.google.com/maps/space/
Moon https://www.google.com/maps/space/moon/
JPL/NASA Solar System pages https://web.archive.org/web/20090305114857/http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar-system/index.cfm
JPL/NASA Solar System images https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/
Windows to the Universe https://www.windows2universe.org/
NASA Earth Observatory https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/
Impact Craters and meteorites
Terrestrial Impact Structures http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/New%20website_05-2018/Index.html
World Map http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/New%20website_05-2018/World.html
Meteorite online museum (last available in 2015; good
pictures) https://web.archive.org/web/20150606075620/http://www.nyrockman.com/museum-1.htm
Gems and Minerals
AMNH New York City https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/gems-minerals
Smithsonian Institution: https://naturalhistory.si.edu/exhibits/janet-annenberg-hooker-hall-geology-gems-and-minerals
From Crystal to Gem https://web.archive.org/web/20100421170204/http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/discover/cryst.htm
Gems and Minerals https://web.archive.org/web/20150313124055/http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/text/2_0_0.html
theimage.com minerals http://www.theimage.com/mineral/index.htm
gems http://www.theimage.com/gemstone/index.htm
The Mineral Gallery mineral listing https://web.archive.org/web/20080208102438/http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/byname.htm
Mineralogy Database https://www.webmineral.com/
[recommended - 4,714+ minerals and their properties]
Mineral and locality database https://www.mindat.org/
[
41,801+ mineral names (inc. synonyms, varieties, etc)]
Geological Organisations
American Geosciences (formerly Geologic) Institute https://www.americangeosciences.org/
American Geophysical Union https://www.agu.org/
Geological Society of America https://www.geosociety.org/
American Association of Petroleum Geologists https://www.aapg.org
U S Geological Survey https://www.usgs.gov/
Internet sites for geological links
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College https://serc.carleton.edu/serc/about/index.html
SERC geology https://serc.carleton.edu/serc/catalog_search.html?q1=sercvocabs__43%3A2&q2=sercvocabs__43%3A14&d5ca78b8de
Yahoo! Science: Earth Sciences https://web.archive.org/web/20140525234800/http://dir.yahoo.com/science/earth_sciences/
EInet- Geosciences https://www.einet.net/dir14714/Geosciences.htm
Science Education
National Center for Science Education https://ncse.ngo/ [old site -
archive.org 2008 - https://web.archive.org/web/20080614132050/http://www.natcenscied.org/]
GeoScience: K-12 Resources https://web.archive.org/web/20121007041138/http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~johnstos/geosci.html
Regents Earth Science and Regents Physics Web Resource
(Michael P. Klimetz) https://web.archive.org/web/20160326232337/http://www.earthphysicsteaching.homestead.com/
Earth Science Picture of the Day (site concluded Sept 2025; to be
kept available) https://epod.usra.edu/
NASA Earth Observatory https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/
formerly NASA Visible Earth (available into 2024) https://web.archive.org/web/20240305031001/http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
Earth Science World ImageBank (AGI) https://web.archive.org/web/20200203003842/http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/
AGI Education GeoSource https://egs.americangeosciences.org/vufind/Search/
Geoscience-related humour (linked through this page on this
website) geohumor.html
