Geological & Planetary Sciences (GPS): Earthquakes & Geophysics

v. 1 (1911) - present

v. 1 (1958) - present

v. 1 (1929) - present

v. 1 (1982) - present

v. 1 (1964) - present

Covers various topics such as global plate tectonics, geodynamics, seismic topography, and many more.

San Francisco Bay Area info

Public-private partnership of people, organizations, and regional alliances that work together to improve preparedness, mitigation and resiliency.

Southern California Earthquake Data Center

Interactive zone maps from the California Geological Survey for fault rupture, liquefaction and seismic landslide hazards in California.

From the California Geological Survey

National Earthquake Info Center (NEIC)

NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information has an excellent database of over 5700 earthquakes from 2150 BC to the present.

NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information has an excellent database of over 500 volcanoes.

Southern California, Northern California, Worldwide

Good intro to earthquake mechanics

January 2024 - USGS scientists and our partners recently revealed the latest National Seismic Hazard Model, showing that nearly 75% of the United States could experience a damaging earthquake, emphasizing seismic hazards span a significant part of the country.

Interactive maps including latest earthquakes, faults, and earthquake scenarios.

Airborne geophysical surveys and magnetic anomaly maps.

Lots of USGS publications.

This directory contains images of seismograms formally stored at Caltech in the Kresge Seismological Laboratory. The images are a subset of the approximately 1 million paper records accumulated from 1928 through the mid‐1980’s. The images were scanned in 2009‐2011 by Google in collaboration with UC Santa Cruz as part of the Google Books project. Scans include fronts and backs of the paper records and are organized into directories that each corresponds to an individual box in which the records were originally stored at Kresge. These images are hosted at Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS).

The extensive primary record of Caltech’s seismological research from its beginnings in the 1920s through 1962 has been documented in detail and microfilmed. These were microfilmed during the early 1980s with funding from the USGS and NOAA.
In addition to the Pasadena station, there were also auxiliary stations located at Mt. Wilson, Riverside, Santa Barbara, La Holla, Tinemaha, and Haiwee. All stations have been microfilmed.
This collection of microfilms is available in the Sherman Fairchild Library. Please contact us for access information.

The Caltech Seismological Lab has made available over 12,000 scanned images of pre-digital analog recordings of major earthquakes recorded in Southern California between 1963 and 1992. Scanned images of paper records for M>3.5 southern California earthquakes and several significant teleseisms are available for download via the SCEDC through this search tool.

Goodstein, Judith R., and Paul Roberts. 1985. “Filming Seismograms and Related Materials at the California Institute of Technology”. Eos 66 (44): 737–39.

Goodstein, J. R., and P. Roberts. 1988. “Filming Seismograms and Related Materials at the California Institute of Technology”. In Historical Seismograms and Earthquakes of the World, 380–89. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Goodstein, Judith R., and Paul Roberts. 1990. “Filming Seismograms and Related Materials at the California Institute of Technology”. In History of Geophysics, 185–89. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union.

Goodstein, Judith R. 2009. “Filming Seismograms and Related Materials at the California Institute of Technology”. California Institute of Technology.

This paper, written by Brodsky and Kanamori (2011), describes the work that Google Books performed during 2009-2011. This project was done in collaboration with UC Santa Cruz as part of the Google Books project.

Useful sight covers information about the San Andreas fault system. Easy to understand information and resources on the San Andreas fault and other related topics.

(online from the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology).
Also available in print:
Geology South Mudd room I books - QE531 .H57 1985

Preservations of seismograms and related materials.

20 Largest Earthquakes in the World.

Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2018 from the USGS. 119 years of global seismicity in the context of global plate tectonics and the Earth’s physiography. Scientific Investigations Map 3446.

GSA special papers; volume 34.
Also available in print at the Archives:
QE534 .G785 1941

Also available in print:
Geology South Mudd room I books - QE535.2.U6 E27 1993