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USGS Fact Sheets (listed by Hazards Theme)

 

USGS activities in the hazards theme area deal with describing, documenting, and understanding natural hazards and their risks. These activities include long-term monitoring and forecasting, short-term prediction, real-time monitoring and communication with civil authorities and others during a crisis. Other significant activities are post-crisis analysis with scenario formulation to develop strategies to mitigate the impact of future events and preparation of coordinated risk assessments for regions vulnerable to natural hazards.

 

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General Hazards

  • FS-093-99: Natural Hazards: Minimizing the Effects
  • FS-248-96: Recent Highlights -- Hazards
  • FS-244-96: Rapid-Estimation Method for Assessing Scour at Highway Bridges Based on Limited Site Data
  • FS-061-95: Natural Hazards Program: Lessons Learned for Reducing Risk

Volcano Hazards

  • FS-092-02: Mount Mazama and Crater Lake: Growth and Destruction of a Cascade Volcano
  • FS-064-02: The Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT)
  • FS-024-02: Red Mountain Volcano—A Spectacular and Unusual Cinder Cone in Northern Arizona
  • FS-152-00:Viewing Lava Safely--Common Sense is Not enough
  • FS-118-00: Historically Active Volcanoes in Alaska--A Quick Reference
  • FS-060-00: Mount Hood--History and Hazards of Oregon's Most Recently Active Volcano
  • FS-059-00: Mount Baker--Living With An Active Volcano
  • FS-058-00: Glacier Peak--History and Hazards of a Cascade Volcano
  • FS-036-00: Mount St. Helens--From the 1980 to 2000
  • FS-027-00: Volcanic Ash Fall-A "Hard Rain" of Abrasive Particles
  • FS-023-00: How Old is 'Cinder Cone'? -- Solving a Mystery in Lassen Volcanic Park, Californiapdf

Earthquake Hazards

  • FS-096-03: Earthquakes—Rattling the Earth's Plumbing System
  • FS-069-01: SCIGN.New Southern California GPS Network Advances the Study of Earthquakes
  • FS-045-01: The Advanced National Seismic System: Management and Implementation
  • FS-030-01: Did You Feel It? Community-Made Earthquake Shaking Maps
  • FS-006-01: Earthquakes In and Near the Northeastern United States, 1638-1998
  • FS-001-01: Earthquake Shaking -- Finding the "Hotspots"
  • FS-103-00: 'Shake Maps' - Instant Maps of Earthquake Shaking
  • FS-075-00: ANSS--Advanced National Seismic System
  • FS-151-99: Progress Toward a Safer Future Since the 1989 Loma Prieta
  • FS-152-99: Major Quake Likely to Strike Between 2000 and 2030
  • FS-110-99--pdf: The "Larse" Project-Working Toward a Safer Future for Los Angeles
  • FS-200-96: Uncovering Hidden Hazards in the Mississippi Valley
  • FS-183-96 Hazard Maps Help Save Lives and Property
  • FS-105-96: Airborne Hunt for Faults in the Portland-Vancouver Area
  • FS-096-96: Earthquake Technology Fights Crime
  • FS-094-96: When Will the Next Great Quake Strike Northern California?

Landslide Hazards

  • FS-020-98: Popular Beach Disappears Underwater in Huge Coastal Landslide--Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan
  • FS-013-98: Landslide Hazards in Glacial Lake Clays - Tully Valley, New York
  • FS-176-97: Debris-Flow Hazards in the United States
  • FS-159-96: Debris-Flow Hazards in the Blue Ridge of Virginia

Flood Hazards

  • FS-037-02: The 1972 Black Hills-Rapid City Flood Revisited
  • FS-104-01: Sparta, New Jersey, flood of August 11-14, 2000
  • FS-041 -01: The 1951 Floods in Kansas Revisited
  • FS-162-00: Floods in Cuyama Valley, California, February 1998
  • FS-076-00: National Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Future Sea-Level Rise
  • FS-064-00:Simulation of the Effects of Streambed-Management Practices on Flood Levels in Vermont
  • FS-024-00: Significant Floods in the United States During the 20th Century--USGS Measures a Century of Floods
  • FS-147-99: Floods in the Guadalupe and San Antonio River Basins in Texas, October 1998
  • FS-244-96: Rapid-Estimation Method for Assessing Scour at Highway Bridges Based on Limited Site Data
  • FS-229-96: The "100-Year Flood"
  • FS-140-96: January 1996 Floods Deliver Large Loads of Nutrients and Sediment to the Chesapeake Bay
  • FS-103-96: Statewide Floods in Pennsylvania, January 1996
  • FS-089-96: Controlled-Flooding of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon: the Rationale and Data-Collection Planned
  • FS-209-95: Stream Gaging and Flood Forecasting: A Partnership of the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Weather Service
  • FS-062-95: Northern California Storms and Floods of January 1995

Other Related Hazard Reports

Coastal Storms and Tsunamis

  • FS-026-00: El Niņo Storms Erode Beaches on Monterey Bay, California
  • FS-175-99: El Niņo Sea-Level Rise Wreaks Havoc in California's San Francisco Bay Region

Wildfires and Debris Flows

  • FS-036-03: Rapid-Deployment Data-Collection Networks for Wildland Fire Applications
  • FS-112-95Debris-Flow Hazard in the San Francisco Region

Biology Related Hazards

 
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