NASA
Gravity Assist: The Moon Quakes! With Walter Kiefer
Just like earthquakes help scientists figure out what's going on inside our home planet, moonquakes have taught scientists a lot about the interior of the Moon.
Next Animation Studio
Scientists have found anomalous structures around the Earth’s core
Geophysicists from the University of Maryland analyzed seismic waves around the world and found large unusual structures near the Earth’s core.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Did You Know? Earthquake Waves
Learn more about the relationship between earthquakes and different types of seismic waves.
Next Animation Studio
Earth’s strange blobs could be huge pieces of alien planet
Many scientists believe that the Moon formed when a Mars-sized planet, called Theia, struck Earth around 4.5 billion years ago.
Curated Video
Earthquakes: Causes, Magnitude, and Impacts
This video provides an informative overview of earthquakes, explaining the causes, effects, and potential dangers associated with these natural disasters. It covers important concepts such as tectonic plates, seismic waves, magnitude...
msvgo
Earthquake
It explains earthquakes and their causes. It discusses the use of a Richter scale to measure earthquake and the measures taken to protect against earthquakes.
Mazz Media
Refraction
Through live action footage and animated diagrams students will come to understand that refraction is the bending of light rays when they go from one medium to another medium of different density. The program explains why light refracts...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Earthquakes Around the World
This video provides an overview of earthquakes, including their causes, measurement, and notable earthquakes in history. It also discusses the importance of earthquake preparedness and provides tips on how to create an emergency plan and...
Professor Dave Explains
Earthquakes and Seismology in Earth’s Interior
We just learned about all the layers of the Earth, but how did we accumulate this information? How do we know the composition of these layers and the depths at which they occur? The answer is seismology! Let's learn about the different...
FuseSchool
PHYSICS - Astrophysics - Waves and the Earth (S and P waves)
In this video you are going to learn how we used earthquakes to look deep into the earth. The study of S and P waves helped us understand that the Earth has a layered structure, with a solid inner core surrounded by an outer liquid core.
Visual Learning Systems
Vibrations and Waves: Waves in Action
This program explores the fascinating features of vibrations and waves. Vivid examples of these phenomenon help students understand how sounds are formed, how light travels, and how ocean waves move. Special attention is also given to...
Visual Learning Systems
The Nature of Waves: Mediums and Waves
Upon viewing the The Nature of Waves video series, students will be able to do the following: Define waves as traveling disturbances that carry energy through matter or space. Explain that waves do not actually move matter. Instead,...
Khan Academy
The Mohorovicic Seismic Discontinuity, Cosmology and Astronomy
The phenomena observed in the behavior of waves and data received from seismographs can lead us to various conclusions about the densities of material waves passing through.
PBS
Seismic Waves | UNC-TV Science
No need to wave the white flag. Use an animation to demonstrate the motion of seismic waves instead. A short animation shows the motion of longitudinal and transverse waves. Pupils also learn how the movement displaces the earth.
TED-Ed
Why Are Earthquakes so Hard to Predict?
Cell phones to crowdsource vibrations to warn of incoming earthquakes? Detectors to register high levels of radon-thoron isotopes? After detailing the factors that make earthquakes so difficult to predict, the narrator of a fascinating...
TED-Ed
Why Do Buildings Fall in Earthquakes?
There are few natural phenomena as startling as an earthquake, and depending on the building you're in, these experiences can be downright terrifying. Follow along as this video explores the factors that determine how a building...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Earthquakes Scattered Across the Globe Recorded by One Station
Animation features a gridded sphere that shows a seismic station recording 10 different earthquakes that are widely scattered. [1:22]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: 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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Waves of Destruction
Learn about the anatomy of a tsunami in this video segment from Nature. Essay, discussion questions, and links to related information included. [1:19]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: 4 Station Seismograph Network; No Cartoon House Bounce
Animation illustrates that seismic waves traveling away from an earthquake occur everywhere, not just at seismic stations. [0:21]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Elastic Rebound on High Friction Strike Slip Fault
Animation shows the buildup of stress along the margin of two stuck plates that are trying to slide past one another deforming rock. [33]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Why S Waves Only Travel in Solids
Explains why S-waves will only travel in solids.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: 4 Station Seismograph Network Records a Single Earthquake
Animation illustrates how seismic stations at varying distances from a large earthquake have signature seismograms. [0:31]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Five Earthquakes Equidistant From One Seismograph Station
This animation uses a gridded sphere to show a single station recording five earthquakes equal distance away. [0:44]