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Geoscience Australia

• What is an earthquake?
  Provides information about earthquake science with an Australian focus.
  http://www.ga.gov.au/urban/factsheets/earthquakes.jsp

• Recent earthquakes measured by Geoscience Australia
  Provides up-to-date records of earthquake activity.
  http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/listQuakes

Faultline: Seismic science at the epicenter (Exploratorium, USA)

Provides information on major earthquakes in the past and the science of earthquakes. Also includes sections on earthquake prediction, engineering of buildings, useful graphics and photos. Has an American perspective.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/index.html

United States Geological Survey

• Latest earthquakes – last 7 days
  Shows the location of recent earthquakes around the world.
  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/

• Building safer structures
  Provides information about building monitoring during earthquakes.
  http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/SaferStructures/

• Saving lives through better design standards
  Explains how an understanding of earth movement leads to improved building standards.
  http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/BetterDesign/

Resistant buildings (Introducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in Schools, University of Bristol, UK)

Explains how buildings vibrate during earthquakes and how they can be protected or strengthened to resist earthquakes.
http://www.ideers.bris.ac.uk/resistant/resist_home.html

Earthquake engineering (National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering, University of California, USA)

Includes sections on the causes of damage by earthquakes and earthquake-resistant design and construction.
http://nisee.berkeley.edu/bertero/html/table_of_contents.html

Earthquake leaflet (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Germany)

Provides simple information on earthquakes, earthquake risk and preventative action for those living in earthquake-prone areas.
http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/portal/-?$part=binary-content&id=2018281&status=300&language=en

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• Adobe house (Catalyst, 18 May 2006)
  Describes an Australian researcher's work using string, bamboo and wire to reinforce mud brick houses.
  http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1640933.htm

• Earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes (Ask and Expert)
  Provides a series of questions and answers about natural disasters.
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/expert/realexpert/earthquakes/

Disaster risk reduction begins at school (United Nations World Disaster Reduction Campaign)

Provides information about the 2006-2007 World Disaster Reduction Campaign and other campaigns since 2000.
http://www.unisdr.org/eng/public_aware/world_camp/2006-2007/wdrc-2006-2007.htm

World Disasters Report 2005 (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Switzerland)

Reports on the latest trends, facts and analysis of recent crises, focusing on the role of information in disasters
http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2005/index.asp