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Seismic Hazard

Seismic Hazard

National seismic hazard maps and data, interactive U.S. Fault Map and database, seismic design information, and earthquake scenarios.

Seismic Hazard Maps and Site-Specific Data
Faults
Design Ground Motions
Earthquake Scenarios
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Seismic Hazard

Seismic Hazard

National seismic hazard maps and data, interactive U.S. Fault Map and database, seismic design information, and earthquake scenarios.

Seismic Hazard Maps and Site-Specific Data
Faults
Design Ground Motions
Earthquake Scenarios
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The San Andreas Fault System--Complexities along a major transform fault system and relation to earthquake hazards

Project
Map showing frequency of damaging earthquake shaking around U.S.

Introduction to the National Seismic Hazard Maps

Project
Global view of three locations: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, and American Samoa.

2026 NSHMs for GNMI and AmSam

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Proceedings of Conference XXXIV; a workshop on Probabilistic earthquake-hazards assessments

Presentations and Events

PubTalk 3/2006 — The Great 1906 Earthquake

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Earthquake Hazards
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Earthquake hazard and prediction in NW Mexico and the California/Mexico border

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Earthquake hazards information dissemination; a study of Charleston, South Carolina

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Earthquake hazard and prediction in Northwest Mexico and California/Mexico border

Charts or Graphs
Shaded relief location map for the East Gallatin-Reese Creek fault system in northwest Yellowstone National Park

Shaded relief location map for the East Gallatin-Reese Creek fault system in northwest Yellowstone National Park

Research
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Numerical Models of the Physics Underpinning Induced Earthquakes

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Seismic imaging beneath an InSAR anomaly in eastern Washington State: Shallow faulting associated with an earthquake swarm in a low-hazard area

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Earthquake hazards in sensitive clays along the Wasatch Front, Utah

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Two USGS employees install a solar panel in a field of grass beside a body of water.

USGS deploys “aftershock kits” to study Whitehouse Station earthquakes

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Assessing the value of removing earthquake-hazard-related epistemic uncertainties, exemplified using average annual loss in California

Center News
faults in Southern California

Geonarrative Investigates Geohazards of the Salton Sea

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Collage of USGS Maps.

Earthquake hazard map of the Henrys Lake Quadrangle, Idaho and Montana

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Data for Systematic Observations of the Slip-pulse Properties of Large Earthquake Ruptures

Education
Traditional seismometer

Earthquake Magnitude, Energy Release, and Shaking Intensity

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Compilation of geologic slip rate constraints used in 1996-2014 U.S. National Seismic Hazard Models (ver. 2.0, February 2022)

General
collecting topographic data

Work at the USGS Earthquake Science Center!

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USGS science for a changing world

Thailand Seismic Hazard Workshop - 2007

Activity
USGS science for a changing world

Workshop on Hazard from Induced Seismicity

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OAF Tools - R package

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East Meets West: An Earthquake in India Helps Hazard Assessment in the Central United States

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Slip on the San Andreas fault at Parkfield, California, over two earthquake cycles, and the implications for seismic hazard

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Database of horizontal component Fourier amplitude spectra of acceleration ground motions from Pacific Northwest earthquakes

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Stephen J. Angster, Ph.D.

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Afghanistan Earthquake Hazards

Earthquake Hazards
Podcasts
CoreFacts

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