Classroom projects

During the course of the year we'll be adding new software and modifying old programs to make the projects as user friendly as possible. Contact us if you have any exciting interactive software to share.



Watch NZ deform!
Download an animation showing NZ's predicted deformation over the next few million years!

Wellington fault fly-by
Animated fly-by download

See New Zealand in 3 Dimensions
Volcanoes, faults and more.

Programs On-line

NZ Interactive EQ - Locate your own earthquake from records of NZ earthquakes. (You'll need Microsoft Explorer and Active X to run this: click here and we'll show you how).

For an offline version, click here. After unzipping the file, click on the setup program.

GIS project:
Query real earthquake databases and make your own maps.

Quake Tracker Seismogram Database
(to retrieve or send seismograms onto the Web; this is used with WinQuake).

Curriculum Activities

Suggested lesson plan for using Quake Trackers computer programs

Shaky Buildings (Making Sense of Planet Earth and Beyond, Level 5 A.O. 1&2)

Inside the earth with earthquakes (Making Sense of the Nature of Science and its Relationship to Technology, Level 6 A.O. 2)

Looking for what you can't see (Physics in the New Zealand Curriculum: level 7 A.O. 7.1) Determine the depth and seismic velocity of rock layers within the earth, including analysing recordings from a real explosion.

Using Maths to determine the depth of an earth layer Uses graphing, trigonometry and rearranging of equations.

Downloading seismograms and using WinQuake - A step by step tutorial for using data from the Quake Trackers database.

The following link provides a range of projects that have been modified slightly from the Princeton Earth Physics Program (PEPP) in the USA. The curriculum activities include earthquake waves, earthquake magnitudes, calculating the depth of earthquakes, and heaps more!
NZ version of PEPP activities
USA version of PEPP activities

Programs to Download

WinQuake - locate your own earthquake, determine magnitudes and depths, written by Larry Cochrane of the Public Seismic Network

Seismic Waves - a program by Alan Jones that traces the path of earthquake waves through the earth.
seiswave.readme
seiswave.exe

Seismic/Eruption - a program by Alan Jones to view earthquakes and volcanoes in space and time.
seisvole.readme
seisvole.exe

The above two programmes are also available on a CD-ROM

Eqplay - a program written for the Telecom Science Roadshow which teaches about earthquakes in New Zealand.
Installation instructions for eqplay.

Links to other good sites

updated on 16/05/03