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.
General Hazards
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FS-2005-3121:
Hurricane Hazards—A National Threat
- FS-2005-3107:
Southern California Landslides? An Overview
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FS-2005-3104:
A NOAA–USGS Demonstration Flash-Flood and Debris-Flow
Early-Warning System
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FS-2005-3100:
A Simple Field Leach Test to Assess Potential Leaching of
Soluble Constituents from Mine Wastes, Soils, and Other Geologic Materials
FS-2005-3026:
PAGER—Rapid Assessment and Notification of an Earthquake’s
Impact—ON-LINE ONLY
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FS-2004-3125:
Global change impacts on mangrove ecosystems—pdf only 301 KB
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FS2004-3060:
Mapping a Flood...Before It Happens
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FS-2004-3040:
Purple loosestrife volunteers—pdf only 578 KB
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FS-2004-3027:
Cattle grazing and its long-term effects on sedge meadows —pdf only 263
KB
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FS-2004-3019: Latitudinal variation in carbon storage can help predict changes in
swamps affected by global warming—pdf only 1.2 MB
- FS-090-03:
Native plants for effective coastal wetland restoration—pdf only 635
KB
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FS-069-03: Measuring Human-Induced
Land Subsidence from Space
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FS-030-03:
Predicting future mangrove forest migration in the everglades under rising
sea level—pdf only 311KB
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FS-029-03:
Effects of hydrology on red mangrove recruits—pdf only 333 KB
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FS-095-02: Vulnerability of U.S. National Parks
to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Change
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FS-052-02: WaterWatch—Maps and Graphs of Current Water Resources Conditions
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FS-050-02: USGS Environmental Studies of the World Trade Center Area, New York City, after September 11, 2001
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FS-047-02:
History and ecology of mangroves in the Dry Tortugas —pdf only 65KB
- FS-103-01: Natural hazards on alluvial fans: The Venezuela Debris
flow and flash flood disaster
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FS-165-00: Land
Subsidence in the United States
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FS-150-00: Helping Coastal
Communities at Risk from Tsunamis-The Role of U.S.Geological Survey Research
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FS-141-00: Earthquakes
and Tsunamis in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
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FS-117-00: Mapping Buried
Stream Valleys in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
- 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
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FS-092-02: Mount
Mazama and Crater Lake: Growth and Destruction of a Cascade Volcano
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FS-064-02: The
Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT)
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FS-024-02: Red
Mountain Volcano—A Spectacular and Unusual Cinder Cone in Northern Arizona
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FS-152-00:Viewing Lava Safely--Common
Sense is Not enough
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FS-118-00: Historically Active
Volcanoes in Alaska--A Quick Reference
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FS-060-00: Mount Hood--History
and Hazards of Oregon's Most Recently Active Volcano
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FS-059-00: Mount Baker--Living
With An Active Volcano
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FS-058-00: Glacier Peak--History
and Hazards of a Cascade Volcano
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FS-036-00: Mount
St. Helens--From the 1980 to 2000
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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
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FS-132-98: Explosive
Eruptions at Kilauea, Hawaii?
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FS-075-98: Can Another
Great Volcanic Eruption Happen in Alaska? pdf
- FS-169-97: Volcanic
Air Pollution--A Hazard in Hawaii
- FS-165-97: Living
With Volcanic Risk in the Cascades
- FS-115-97: Benefits
of Volcano Monitoring Far Outweigh the Costs--The Case of Mount Pinatubo--pdf
- FS-114-97: Lahars of
Mount Pinatubo, Philippines pdf
- FS-113-97: The Cataclysmic
1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines pdf
- FS-074-97: Living
on Active Volcanoes--the Island of Hawaii
- FS-073-97: Future
Eruptions in California's Long Valley Area--What's Likely?--pdf
- FS-070-97: Mount St. Helens
-- From the 1980 Eruption to 1996:
- FS-064-97: Mobile
Response Team Saves Lives in Volcano Crises--pdf
- FS-030-97: Volcanic
Ash--Danger to Aircraft in the North Pacific--pdf
- FS-002-97: What are
Volcano Hazards?--pdf
- FS-236-96: Detecting Debris
Flows Using Ground Vibrations
- FS-172-96: Invisible
CO2 Gas Killing Trees at Mammoth Mountain, California--pdf
- FS-108-96: Living
With a Restless Caldera--Long Valley, California--pdf
Earthquake Hazards
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FS-096-03: Earthquakes—Rattling
the Earth's Plumbing System
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FS-131-02: Earthquake Hazard in the Heart of the Homeland
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FS-069-01: SCIGN.New Southern
California GPS Network Advances the Study of Earthquakes
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FS-045-01: The Advanced National
Seismic System: Management and Implementation
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FS-030-01: Did You Feel It?
Community-Made Earthquake Shaking Maps
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FS-006-01: Earthquakes In
and Near the Northeastern United States, 1638-1998
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FS-001-01: Earthquake Shaking
-- Finding the "Hotspots"
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FS-103-00: 'Shake Maps' -
Instant Maps of Earthquake Shaking
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FS-075-00: ANSS--Advanced
National Seismic System
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FS-151-99: Progress
Toward a Safer Future Since the 1989 Loma Prieta
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FS-152-99: Major
Quake Likely to Strike Between 2000 and 2030
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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
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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 Niño Storms Erode Beaches on Monterey Bay,
California
- FS-175-99:
El Niño Sea-Level Rise Wreaks Havoc in
California's San Francisco Bay Region
Wildfires and Debris Flows
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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
