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Better performance and new features: landslides and liquefaction estimates, population map layer, Spanish Did You Feel It?, and aftershock forecasts.

A model developed by researchers at Indiana University and the USGS can help experts address such risks by estimating the likelihood of landslides...

What is known and what is being done, from the Washington Department of Natural Resources.

Days after fatal debris flows devastated Southern California’s Montecito community,  a team of U.S. Geological Survey geologists joined county, state...

"Gravity Never Sleeps":  The USGS collaborates with community partners for a series of briefings on Capitol Hill to discuss national landslide hazards...

Subduction zone events pose significant threats to lives, property, economic vitality, cultural and natural resources and quality of life. The...

It’s not just something you run into on a golf course-it’s this week’s EarthWord!

When wildfires spread and scorch the earth, people like Penny Luehring have to act fast. Secondary impacts such as debris flows can be devastating to...

On average, how much are landslides estimated to cost the nation per year?

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is at low risk of one common type of landslide, according to the USGS' first-ever hazard assessment for an Eastern...