Products & Publications

This is not a complete listing, but a selected subset of earthquake-related USGS publications. For a complete inventory of earthquake-related USGS publications, please see the USGS Maps, Products, and Publications webpage.

Open-File Reports/Bulletins/Circulars

• The ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario—A Story That Southern Californians Are Writing
  (Circular 1324)


• Creating a Global Building Inventory for Earthquake Loss Assessment and Risk Management


• Historical Seismicity in the South San Francisco Bay Region


• Documentation for the 2008 Update of the United States National Seismic Hazard Maps
  (OFR-2008-1128)


• Map and Data for Quaternary Faults and Fault Systems on the Island of Hawaii


• Subduction zone and crustal dynamics of western Washington: A tectonic model for earthquake hazards evaluation (1999)


• USGS Response to an Urban Earthquake: Northridge '94


• Responses to Iben Brownings prediction of a 1990 New Madrid, Missouri, earthquake. 1993


• Tecumseh's prophecy; preparing for the next New Madrid earthquake; a plan for an intensified study of the New Madrid seismic zone. 1990


• The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake; a 1986 perspective. 1986


• The New Madrid earthquake. 1912


• Assessment of regional earthquake hazards and risk along the Wasatch Front, Utah, edited by P. L. Gori and W. W. Hays, U.S. Geological Survey. 2000.


• Earthquake research at Parkfield, California, 1993 and beyond; report of the NEPEC working group to evaluate the Parkfield earthquake prediction experiment. 1994


• Program for earthquake hazards assessment in the Pacific Northwest. 1991


• Probabilities of large earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay region, California. 1990


• Lessons learned from the Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of October 17, 1989


• Alaska's Good Friday earthquake, March 27, 1964, a preliminary geologic evaluation. 1964


• The Lyman Hawaiian earthquake diary, 1833-1917. 1992


• The San Francisco earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, and their effects on structures and structural materials. 1907


• Implications for Earthquake Risk Reduction in the United States from the Kocaeli, Turkey, Earthquake of August 17, 1999. 2000.


• An Assessment of Seismic Monitoring in the United States: Requirement for an Advanced National Seismic System. 1999.


• Goals, opportunities, and priorities for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program. 1992