Earthquake Podcasts

Science Information

• East Coast Earthquakes
• How Can You Prepare for Earthquakes?
• USGS Global Earthquake Alerts to Include Economic Loss and Casualty Information
• Science for a Dangerous Planet
• Shaking and Tweeting: The USGS Twitter Earthquake Detection Program
• Public Lecture Sneak Peek: Geohazards of the Aleutian Islands -- Great Earthquakes, Great Waves, and Great Volcanic Explosions!
• Why should people in the Eastern United States be concerned about earthquakes?
• What is the difference between intensity scales and magnitude scales?
• What was Pangea?
• Is there a relationship between large earthquakes that occur along major fault zones and nearby volcanic eruptions?
• What should I do during an earthquake?
• Can animals predict earthquakes?
• How can I report an earthquake experience or related observation?
• How do I decide whether or not to get earthquake insurance?
• Why are we having so many earthquakes? Has earthquake activity been increasing?
• Can "Mega Quakes," which are earthquakes greater than a magnitude 10, really happen?
• What is an earthquake and what causes them to happen?
• Will California eventually fall off into the ocean?
• What are tsunamis?
• Is there earthquake weather?
• What is the biggest earthquake in the United States?
• I saw on a map that I live in an area of "high liquefaction probability." What does that mean and can I do anything about it?
• How will my house hold up in an earthquake? Can the USGS send someone out to evaluate my property?
• What is the "Ring of Fire"?
• Can the ground open up during an earthquake?
• At what magnitude does damage begin to occur in an earthquake?
• Can We Predict Earthquakes?
• Earthquake in the Midwest
• Forecasting Earthquakes in California
• When is an Earthquake not an Earthquake?

Specific Earthquakes

• Remembering Ridgecrest
• A Year After the 2011 Virginia Earthquake: Will Shaking Continue?
• A Year After the 2011 Virginia Earthquake: What More Do We Know?
• November Public Lecture: Did You Feel It? The Virginia Earthquake of August 23, 2011
• New Madrid Earthquake Bicentennial
• Magnitude 8.9 Near the East Coast of Japan
• Magnitude 6.3 Earthquake Strikes New Zealand
• Shaken, Not Stirred--3.6 Earthquake in Maryland
• Lessons from Chile: Preparation is Key
• Help in Haiti - The Role of Science
• Aftershock Hazards in Haiti
• The Haitian Earthquake - A Week Later
• Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Haiti
• Magnitude 5.8 Earthquake in Northwest Mexico
• Loma Prieta: 20 Years Later, Bay Area Safer
• Samoa Islands and Sumatra Earthquakes
• Magnitude 4.7 in Greater Los Angeles Area
• Magnitude 6.3 Earthquake in Central Italy
• Magnitude 6.4s in Pakistan
• Magnitude-5.4 Earthquake in Greater Los Angeles
• Magnitude-7.9 Earthquake in China

Outreach Events

• ShakeOut Podcast 2013
• ShakeOut Drill: Preparing for Earthquakes
• What is the Great Southern California ShakeOut?