Media Contacts
For information following a significant earthquake:
- Get information about an earthquake that just happened
- Get notification for earthquakes that occur
- General earthquake information
- Media Interviews & regional contacts
- Earthquake engineering
- Emergency management organizations
- Specific seismic hazards
- Video Footage
Get information about an earthquake that just happened
- Media Hotline: 303-273-8500
Get notification for earthquakes that occur
General earthquake information
- FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- Hazards & Preparedness
- US Fault Maps & Information
- National Earthquake Hazards Maps
- Earthquakes - online publication
- The San Andreas Fault - online publication
- This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics - online publication
- Earthquake-related Fact Sheets
- Information by Topic
- Information by Region
Media Interviews & Regional Contacts
- USGS Communications Offices - Headquarters (Reston, VA), Eastern, Central, Western
- National & International Earthquakes - NEIC
1711 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401, 303-525-7848 or 303-273-8500 - Hawaii - USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory
P.O. Box 51, Hawaii National Park, HI 96718-0051, 808-967-8801 - Alaska - Alaska Earthquake Information Center (AEIC)
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, 903 Koyukuk Dr., Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320, 907-474-7320 - Pacific Northwest - USGS/University of Washington Geophysics Dept.
University of Washington, Dept. of Earth & Space Sciences, P.O. Box 351310, Seattle, WA 98195-1310, 206-685-2255 - California - California Geological Survey (CGS)
801 K Street MS-12-3, Sacramento, CA 95814-3531, 916-445-1825 - Northern California - USGS Menlo Park
345 Middlefield Rd. MS-977, Menlo Park, CA 94025 , 800-329-4085 or 650-329-4668 - Southern California - USGS Pasadena
525 S. Wilson Ave., Pasadena, CA 91106, 626-583-7811 - Southern California - Caltech Media Relations
315 Hill St., Pasadena, CA 91125, 626-395-3227 - Nevada-University of Reno Seismic Lab
Seismological Laboratory/174, Mackay School of Mines, Reno, NV 89557, 775-784-4975 - Intermountain West - University of Utah Seismograph Stations
135 South 1460 East, Room 705 WBB, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0111, 801-581-6274 - Montana - Bureau of Mines and Geology
Earthquake Studies Office, 1300 West Park St., Butte, MT 59701, 406-496-4332 - Mid-America - USGS/Center for Earthquake Research & Information (CERI)
University of Memphis-CERI, 3890 Central Ave., TN 38152, 901-678-5264 or 901-678-2007 - Northeastern US - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, 845-365-8387 - Northeastern US - Weston Observatory
Boston College Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, 381 Concord Rd., Weston, MA 02493, 617-552-8300 - Puerto Rico & US Territories - Puerto Rico Seismic Network (PRSN)
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, P.O. Box 9017, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681-9017, 787-833-8433
- Caltech Civil Engineering-Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory
Caltech Media Relations - 626-395-3227 - Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE)
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
499 14th St., Suite 320, Oakland, CA, 510-451-0905 - Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)
- Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
- Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC)
Emergency management organizations
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
500 C Street SW, Washington, DC 20472 - State of California Emergency Services (OES)
Southern California Information & Public Affairs - 562-795-2941
California Statewide Information & Public Affairs - 916-262-1843 - US Agency for International Development (USAID)
- International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies
- ReliefWeb
- GlobalCorps Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)
Tsunamis
- West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
910 S. Felton St., Palmer, AK 99645, 907-745-4212 - Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
737 Bishop St., No.2200, Honolulu, HI 96813, 808-689-8207 ext.301
Landslides
- USGS Landslide Hazards Program
1711 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401, 800-654-4966 - California Geological Survey
Please go the the USGS Office of Communications "Videos for the Media" webpage.