Menlo Park Science Center
Vincent E. McKelvey Building on the Menlo Park campus. Photo by Scott Haefner, USGS.
Upcoming Lectures
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USGS Earthquake Seminar Series
Wednesday September 17, 2008 at 10:30AM
Tom Holzer, USGS, Menlo Park will present “Liquefaction scenarios for a repeat of the 1868 Hayward earthquake”
- USGS Evening Public Lecture Series
About Us
These web pages are provided by the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Earthquake Hazard Team as part of our effort to reduce earthquake hazard in the United States. We are based in Menlo Park, California, in the San Francisco Bay Region.
The Menlo Park Science Center has been the flagship research center for the USGS in the western United States for more than 50 years. It is the largest USGS research center in the West and houses extensive research laboratories, scientific infrastructure, and library facilities. The Center is strategically located to take advantage of partnerships in one of the greatest geographic concentrations of nationally and internationally recognized Earth science institutions in the world.
Scientists in Menlo Park conduct a wide array of both basic and applied science, usually in collaboration with scientists from outside the Center. Scientific research and natural-hazard assessments are critical to effective mitigation planning, short-term forecasting, and event response.
Video presentation about our campus
