Rapid Changes

Rapid Changes on the Earth

Click here to view a website with details on what to do before, during, and after an earthquake. Click on the links at the top of this page.
Here's another great web page with lots of information at the top to click on. Check it out here!
Step by step, before, during, and after... What do I do? Check out the links and tips in the middle of this page.
Here's a web page from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). There are several great links a little further down the page.
Tips on planning what to do BEFORE an earthquake can be found here... and it's kid-friendly.
Here are a couple of online games to get you thinking about preparing for a shaker!

National Geographic articles and videos on volcanoes.
...and articles from the Times about volcanoes.
A Google news web search for volcanoes: Click here.
Electric blue flames from a volcano? See them here!
What's better than a Bill Nye video on volcanoes? Not much! Click here to watch!
Here's a video on the volcano Paricutin erupting in Mexico.
Learn more about the Ring of Fire from this page on NatGeo's site.
What does the Salton Sea have to do with volcanoes? Check out this video!
A Day in Pompeii: A VERY well done video on the day Vesuvius erupted.

Rockslides: Several huge boulders roll through a 300 year old home in Italy. Click here to see it!
National Geographic articles on landslides.
Mudslides and Landslides: Click here for the latest news from the New York Times.
A Google news web search for mudslides and landslides. Click here. NEW: Here's a video from the Montecito mudslides.
Here's a cliffhanger video showing condos in central CA... hanging on to a cliff: Click here for the first video, then watch this one and this one.
Here's a timelapse of erosion... watch a year's worth of erosion in 2 minutes. View it below.

Here's a video of a tsunami coming in to Fukushima, Japan. Powerful!
More video footage of a tsunami, as well as land becoming like liquid and moving entire villages.

National Geographic has a good video on the basics of earthquakes... Check it out here!

Here's a video from National Geographic on Volcanoes 101.

Here's a landslide that looks more like a lava flow... weird!