Last update: May 11, 2009 (updated by -BGS)

Lecture notes and books (academic level)

• Theory of the Earth Presently out of print, but available electronically. Author: Don L. Anderson
• Samizdat Press electronic books
  Large collection of Academic lecture notes and publications for teaching.
• Albert Tarantola's pages
  Lecture notes and books, mainly on solving inverse problems.
• Books Lecture notes Stanford. Fairly nice collection of academic level Lecture notes and books by Jon Claerbout and colleagues.
• Nonlinear Inversion and Tomography Author: James G. Berryman
• Transfer functions, system responses and calibration headers postsript pages Author: Axel Plesinger.
• Seismic Sensors and their Calibration (Elementary, more figures) Seismometry (Concise with some advanced topics, IASPEI publication) Author: Erhard Wielandt.
• Inversion of Geophysical data (German) HTML pages. Author: Wolfgang Friederich.
• Seismic wave theory (German) HTML pages. Author: Wolfgang Friederich.
• EPCC-TEC Course Materials Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) course material related to high-performance computing.
• Manual of Seismological Observatory Practise WWW-edition which is regularly updated within the Commission on Practise of IASPEI.

• Public Seismic Network Redwood City, CA, USA. For the advance amateur seismologist, with a.o. instructions of how to build your own seismograph system, recording system, available software to view professional seismograms, etc. Initiative: Larry Cochrane. Includes links to other amateur seismology networks.
• Friuli Experimental Seismic Network, Italy. A private network created by amateur seismologists in Italy. Contact: Giovanni Rotta.
• Italian Experimental Seismic Array, Italy. Network of (advanced) amateur seismic stations in Italy. Contact: Francesco Nucera.
• Amateur seismology web page Site with a number of relevant links for amateur seismology. Maintained by Mauro Mariotti.
• New Zealand Public Seismic Network maintained by Dave Nelson, map of the PSN stations and links to amateur seismologists and their activities.
• Amateur Seismic Centre The Amateur Seismic Centre (ASC) is dedicated to spreading knowledge and awareness of earthquakes, in South Asia, primarily in India, using the Internet. Based in Pune (Maharashtra), India, we monitor seismic activity in the region on an amateur basis.

School Seismology

• France, SISMOS à l'école, (41 active stations, 2009).
• Ireland, Seismology in Schools (Seismeolaíocht sa Scoil), (43 active stations, 2009)
• Germany, Eduseis in Germany
• UK, UK School Seismology Program (143 active stations 2009)
• Italy, Eduseis in Italy
• USA, United States Seismographs in Schools program (IRIS) (200 active stations 2009)

Public Information

• Public education for Earthquake Hazards by Sarah Nathe, Paula Gori, Marjorie Greene, Elizabeth Lemersal, and Dennis Mileti. General information on what to do and not to do with earthquakes and related subjects.
• Savage earth Online Archive site of the Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) with general information on earthquakes.
• BBC Science Earthquakes Information and basic background information on natural disasters. Recent earthquakes in the News.

Resources

• Rapid Earthquake Viewer, a very simple quick interface to current seismic data from the IRIS database
• SSA Seismology Resources
  SSA Seismology Resources for Teachers (old site). Interesting information for educational software. video's, books, etc. Seismological Society of America
• Introducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in Schools (IDEERS). Educational site from the Earthquake Engineering Research Centre at The University of Bristol, UK.
• Verband der Deutsche Schulgeographen (german). Relevant (school) educational links.
• Virtual Eartquake Interactive Web-based program. Introduces concept of Epicenter, Richter Magnitude, etc.
• EarthView project Columbia University, New York, USA. Educational access to a wide range of contemporary information on the earth sciences.
• EqIIS Earthquake Image Information System Library of slides/photographs on earthquake related phenomena. Berkeley, California. US.
• General Earthquake information from the USGS: handouts. Elementary earthquake information, statistics, magnitudes, maps, glossary, plate tectonics, etc. Useful for presentations, etc.
• SAGUARO Science And GIS Unlocking Analysis & Research Opportunities (SAGUARO). Using GIS as a problem solving and inquiry tool in the Earth Sciences. Different modules on different aspects of Earth Sciences.

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