Earthquakes - April 18

Friday, April 18, 2025

Today is Adult Autism Day, Animal Crackers Birthday, Amateur Radio Day, Juggler's Day, Newspaper Columnists Day, Velociraptor Awareness Day, Pinata Day, and Support Teen Literature Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Earthquakes

ON THIS DATE

• 1775 - Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements
• 1906 - An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing more than 3,000.
• 1983 - A suicide bomber kills 63 people, including 17 Americans, at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1857  Lawyer Clarence Darrow
• 1924 - Singer-songwriter and guitarist Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
• 1953 - Actor Rick Moranis
• 1963 - Talk show host Conan O'Brien
• 1971 - Scottish actor David Tennant

SONGS OF THE DAY 

I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King - LISTEN
Honky-Tonk  - Clarence Gatemouth Brown - LISTEN
Animal Crackers - Shirley Temple - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Paul Revere's Ride

THEME: EARTHQUAKES

• Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go!  - Learning About Earthquakes (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Earthquakes (Available in Spanish) (7:16) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - USGS - Latest Earthquakes - TRACK
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragnflyTV - Scientist Profile: Earthquake Scientist (Available in Spanish) (1:40) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Forecasting Earthquakes (3:39) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Predicting Earthquakes (2:56) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Explaining Earthquakes (4:26) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Megathrust Earthquakes (10;49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: San Francisco (3:28) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: Los Angeles (5:13) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: The Prehistoric Records (3:19) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: The Seismograph (3:39) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: When Plates Collide (Available in Spanish) (3:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Predicting Earthquakes (4;20) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grade 9-12 - USGS - The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquake: A 1986 Perspective - READ

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339