Boston College Educational Seismology Project
 
Encouraging students of all ages to learn about and deepen their
understanding of science in general and seismology in particular.

Garfield Elementary School 
seismogram of the December 2004, Sumatra earthquake.


The AS1 educational seismograph.

Garfield Elementary School students analyzing their
seismogram
of the Sumatra earthquake.

Students studying earthquakes and monitoring their classroom seismograph at McDevitt Middle School in Waltham, MA.

Students at Sea Lab in New Bedford, MA.
"Build Your
Own Seismograph" exercise.
Seismic waves recorded by BC-ESP seismographs (updated every 5 minutes)

Earthquakes Recently Recorded by BC-ESP

The development of the BC-ESP was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Geoscience Education Program award No. 0331227. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.