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US Geological Survey - Geologic Hazard Assessments

The Geologic Hazards programs provides information to reduce the human and economic losses and disruptions associated with natural disasters. The program achieves this through monitoring and research on earthquake, landslide, volcano and geomagnetic hazards.

Rating

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PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The geologic hazards program has taken steps to improve coordination across agencies that work on hazards. For example, the program has worked with other hazard programs to link the impacts of performance measures in each agency.
  • The program has begun targeting funding based on risk. For example, the program prioritized all volcano hazards based on level of threat, and used these priorities to reallocate funding.
  • The program efficiently invests in technology that can be used across a variety of hazards. Specifically, investments in seismic monitoring, satellite data purchases and data archiving are all coordinated.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Work with Federal partners to deliver comprehensive information specific to recently burned areas that are highly susceptible to debris-flows in Southern California.
  • Work with Federal partners to improve hazard assessment and response to regional volcanic ash fall and gas cloud events.
  • Expand coordination of hazards investments across multiple hazard types.

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