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On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 PM, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit near Loma Prieta, CA., shaking the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions. The...

New USGS research documents a 14,000-year history of seismic activity preserved in the sediments of Ozette Lake, a ~100-meter (328-foot) deep coastal...

Ocean-bottom seismographs are valuable tools for studying marine geohazards like subduction zone earthquakes. The USGS has partnered with the Woods...

On July 4th, 2019, as millions of Southern Californians looked forward to fireworks and other celebrations, earthquake shaking rumbled across much of...

USGS is currently soliciting project proposals for Fiscal Year 2025 grants on earthquake hazards science. The grants are a long-standing effort that...

Nearly 75 percent of the U.S. could experience damaging earthquake shaking, including the possibility of damaging earthquakes along the northeastern...

USGS scientists and our partners recently revealed the latest National Seismic Hazard Model, showing that nearly 75% of the United States could...

Did you feel the 1994 Northridge earthquake?