Publications - General Information
General Interest Publications
- Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country—Your Handbook for Southern California
- Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country—Your Handbook for the San Francisco Bay Region
(GIP 15) - Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country—Your Handbook for Earthquakes in Utah
- Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country—Your Handbook for Earthquakes in the Central United States
(GIP 119) - Bicentennial of the 1811—1812 New Madrid Earthquake Sequence December 2011—2012
(GIP 118) - Earthquake science explained: a series of ten short articles for students, teachers, and families
(GIP-21) - Facing the Great Disaster How the Men and Women of the U.S. Geological Survey Responded to the 1906 "San Francisco Earthquake"
(GIP-31) - Where's the San Andreas fault? A guidebook to tracing the fault on public lands in the San Francisco Bay region
(GIP-16) - USGS Library
Searchable database of USGS Authored Publications - The Severity of an Earthquake
understanding intensity and magnitude - The San Andreas Fault
What? Where? When? Why? read all about it! - Our Changing Continents
introduction to paleogeography, the study of changes in the earth's surface - The Interior of the Earth
description of earth's crust, mantle, and core - Geologic Time
discussion of how geoscientists determine age of rocks on the earth - Earthquakes
overview
Plate Tectonics Publications
- Subduction Zone and Crustal Dynamics of Western Washington: A Tectonic Model for Earthquake Hazards Evaluation
- How to Build a Model Illustrating Sea-Floor Spreading and Subduction
- This Dynamic Earth - the Story of Plate Tectonics
Tsunami Publications
- Improving Earthquake and Tsunami Warnings for the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Coast
(FS-2006-3012) - Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Helping Coastal Communities at Risk from Tsunamis-The Role of U.S. Geological Survey Research
- Surviving a Tsunami-Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan
Spanish version