Guidelines for evaluating liquefaction hazards in Nevada and when to perform analysis. Contains information on screening investigations for liquefaction potential, information on how to evaluate liquefaction potential...

This site, provided by the Southern California Earthquake Center, provides detailed information about the location and size of the Hector Mine earthquake of October 17, 1999.

This page contains a map of southern California with epicenters of earthquakes shown as circles of different sizes and colors. The size and color of each earthquake symbol corresponds to its magnitude, as indicated by a...

How does a seismograph work? What is the Richter scale? These questions, and many more, are answered by this page, published by HowSuffWorks, Inc. The pages not only examines these issues, but it also provides images...

In this activity, students use a pan filled with wet sand to simulate soil liquefaction. When the pan is tapped, a brick placed on the sand will tilt and sink, as a building constructed on wet fill would.