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Imaging Israel’s Dead Sea Fault to Understand How Continents Stretch and Rift

Imaging Israel’s Dead Sea Fault to Understand How Continents Stretch and Rift

Imaging a fault to learn more about tectonic plate motion and improve understanding of hazards

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Follow National Wildfire Information in the Palm of Your Hand: GeoMAC Goes Mobile

Follow National Wildfire Information in the Palm of Your Hand: GeoMAC Goes Mobile

The public can now access information about active wildfires across the country using a smartphone.

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MEDIA ADVISORY: Join GeoGirls at Mount St. Helens August 1

MEDIA ADVISORY: Join GeoGirls at Mount St. Helens August 1

Twenty-five middle-school girls from Washington and Oregon are participating in the fourth annual “GeoGirls” outdoor volcano science program at Mount...

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Researchers Develop Model for Predicting Landslides Caused by Earthquakes

Researchers Develop Model for Predicting Landslides Caused by Earthquakes

A model developed by researchers at Indiana University and the USGS can help experts address such risks by estimating the likelihood of landslides...

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Time-lapse view of California Highway 1 reconstruction after 2017 landslide

Time-lapse view of California Highway 1 reconstruction after 2017 landslide

USGS scientists produced an animated GIF in coordination with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) re-opening of State Highway 1...

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Southern California coastal cliffs could retreat 135 feet in 80 years as erosion rates potentially double

Southern California coastal cliffs could retreat 135 feet in 80 years as erosion rates potentially double

USGS scientists combined a series of computer models to forecast cliff erosion along the Southern California coast.

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Sea Level Rise Could Double Erosion Rates of Southern California Coastal Cliffs

Sea Level Rise Could Double Erosion Rates of Southern California Coastal Cliffs

Coastal cliffs from Santa Barbara to San Diego might crumble at more than twice the historical rate by the year 2100 as sea levels rise.

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Rattlesnake Hills Landslide Information

Rattlesnake Hills Landslide Information

What is known and what is being done, from the Washington Department of Natural Resources.

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Kīlauea Volcano Erupts

Kīlauea Volcano Erupts

Today's update for June 21st, 2018 will be the last of the daily updates on this USGS feature story.  We encourage you to keep checking the USGS...

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John Warner selected as one of AGU's Outstanding Reviewers of 2017

John Warner selected as one of AGU's Outstanding Reviewers of 2017

John Warner, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, was cited by Robert Hetland, editor of Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.

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Amy East elected GSA Fellow for insights into landscape response to changes in sediment supply

Amy East elected GSA Fellow for insights into landscape response to changes in sediment supply

The Geological Society of America (GSA) elected USGS research geologist Amy East to be a GSA Fellow, “an honor bestowed on the best of our profession...

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Julie Bernier to serve as panelist at the 2018 State of the Coast Conference

Julie Bernier to serve as panelist at the 2018 State of the Coast Conference

Julie Bernier (SPCMSC geologist) was invited to serve as a panelist for the session "Extraction Related Subsidence and the Potential for Uplift" at...

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