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