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Earth Science Explainers

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Last updated on Aug 25, 2025
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Volcano Hazards: How We Monitor Eruptions Before They Happen
8:45
The Underground Secrets of Clean Energy (Explained by Geophysics)
5:47
Electrical Resistivity Tomography: Imaging Sub-Surface Structures
6:29
How fast do glaciers move?
10:46
Deep Earthquakes—Why do they only occur in specific regions?
6:55
Plate Tectonic Theory—History of How it was Discovered (Educational)
5:56
Tectonic Plates—What are the lithospheric plates?  (Educational)
6:40
NEW!! What Drives Plate Tectonics?  What are the forces involved? (new convection ending; 2022)
7:33
Measuring Plate Tectonics with GPS
5:42
Earthquake Faults, Plate Boundaries, & Stress (Educational 2021)
8:41
Layers of the Earth—What are they? How were they found? (Educational)
6:21
Buildings In Earthquakes—How it's constructed impacts what you feel (educational)
6:26
How Lidar Works in Earth and Environmental Sciences
5:10
Earthquake Faults—3 basic types...in brief (educational)
0:52
What Is Gravity? How can we use it to find buried objects in the Earth?
5:18
Earthquake! Do you know what to do when an earthquake strikes?  (Global)
3:05
Measuring Changing Glaciers with GPS
3:44
Earthquake!! Foreshock, Mainshock, or Aftershock? Which was it?
6:32
What is the Moho? How was it Discovered?  (2018_Educational)
9:22
Changing the Magnitude of an Earthquake: Why downgrade/upgrade?
6:54
Earthquake Travel-time Curves: How far away was that earthquake?
2:52
Earthquake Intensity—What controls the shaking you feel?
8:17
Measuring Drought: A GPS Network Offers A New Perspective
4:30
Buildings in Earthquakes: Why do some fall and others don't? (educational)
5:32
Moment Magnitude Explained—What Happened to the Richter Scale?
5:40
Focal Mechanisms Explained: What are those “beach balls”? (Educational)
6:36
Amplification and Liquefaction Animation (Educational)
1:25