Useful Links from 12th Talk (April 6th) - Earthquake Prediction

Wikipedia Pages for Moment Magnitude, Mercalli Intensity

DEMETER Satellite page related to Seismic Activity

EMSC - The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. Very useful site updated in real-time with detailed maps and info on all European and Worldwide quakes.

IGN - Instituto Geográfico Nacional - last 10 days seismic activity for Spain and Iberian peninsula

Useful Links from 11th Talk (March 23rd) - Tsunami

Wikipedia page for Tsunami

Japan Meteorological Agency - Information on earthquakes and tsunami (in English)

Cooling the Nuclear Reactor - video from the Periodic Table of Videos site

What's a Millisievert? - video from the Sixty Symbols site (also watch the extra content)

Useful Links from 10th Talk (March 9th) - The Americas

Mount St Helens 1980 - Wikipedia page

San Francisco 1906, New Madrid 1812 and Hawaiian Volcanoes - all from the USGS

Chile 1960 - Wikipedia

Useful Links from 9th Talk (February 23rd) - Japan & China

Wikipedia pages for:

Mount Unzen, Kobe 1995 Earthquake, Tokyo 1923 Earthquake

Tangshan 1975 Earthquake and Sichuan 2008 Earthquake

Useful Links from 8th Talk (February 9th) - Iceland

Icelandic Institute of Earth Sciences - pages in English (including webcams for Hekla and Eyjafjallajökull)

Wikipedia pages for Hekla, Laki, Surtsey and Eyjafjallajökull

Useful Links from 7th Talk (January 26th) - Indonesia

Wikipedia pages for Krakatau, Tambora , and Merapi

About the Toba Catastrophe Theory

Useful Links from 6th Talk (January 12th) - Spain & North Africa

Wikipedia page on Mount Teide

About the Decade Volcanoes

Agadir 1960 - Website in French and English

Instituto Andaluz de Geofisica - includes some information on the 1884 quake

Useful Links from 5th Talk (December 15th) - Etna and Prediction of Eruptions

Wikipedia page on Mount Etna

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Main page for Mt Etna (in Italian) including webcam and active seismic monitoring

Etna Geology - Extensive info on Etnaean geology

Useful Links from 4th Talk (December 1st) - Lisbon 1755 and Messina 1908

Wikipedia page on Lisbon Earthquake

Info on the Tsunami following the Lisbon earthquake

An academic paper on the Economic Impact of the Lisbon Earthquake

Wikipedia page on Messina Earthquake 1908

Recent Risk Management paper 1908 Messina - 100 Year Retrrospective

Useful Links from 3rd Talk (November 17th) - Mount Pelée and Parícutin

Wikipedia entries for Mount Pelée and Parícutin. Follow the links for more info and pictures

Useful Links from 2nd Talk (November 3rd)

Wikipedia entry for John Milne - some bizarre misinformation in this but generally reliable

Information on Richter Scale - including frequency and energy plus links to related info

More Latest Earthquake Info - this is from the Edinburgh Earth Observatory (at Edinburgh University)

Find out about the Oyatoi Gaikokujin - The foreign advisors hired by the Japanese government at the ned of the 19th century

Useful Links from 1st Talk (October 20th)

EMSC - The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. Very useful siteupdated in real-time with detailed amps and info on all European and Worldwide quakes.

IGN - Instituto Geográfico Nacional - last 10 days seismic activity for Spain and Iberian peninsula

USGS - USGS Volcano Watch