Data

This data release describes data that were contributed to the GasHype project, a global data compilation effort. Goals of the GasHype project include assessing concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane in the hypolimnion of lakes, reservoirs, and ponds, and identifying important drivers of these concentrations. Data contributed by the U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife...

For evaluating and retrofitting existing buildings to resist earthquakes, the 2023 ASCE/SEI 41 Standard provides Basic Safety Earthquake spectral response accelerations at four levels (BSE-1N, BSE-2N, BSE-1E, and BSE-2E). This data release covers BSE-1E and BSE-2E spectral response accelerations for sites outside of the conterminous United States. For sites in the conterminous U.S., BSE...

This data release provides ground magnetic data collected in May 2025 at the Mammoth Magnetic Anomaly (MMA) site in Pinal County, Arizona. These data were collected to validate and characterize a large aeromagnetic anomaly observed in an airborne survey of southeastern Arizona (Scheirer et al., 2025). The geophysical fieldwork was funded by the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative. Ground...

Ground reference data in the form of ecogeomorphic evaluations, topographic survey measurements, and geotagged photographs were collected at four areas of interest (AOI) across Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS), NY, USA September 16-19, 2024, that document site conditions. The overall goals of USGS personnel for the data collection were to: (1) collect ground reference data that...

A rockfall occurred between the night of January 5 and the morning of January 6, 2025 on the Point Bonita Trail in the National Park Service Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. The rockfall originated from a granodiorite rock face in the Franciscan Formation and deposited approximately 25 cubic meters of rock on the pedestrian trail below. The U.S. Geological Survey...

We collected two ground-based (terrestrial) lidar scans of the southeast face of El Capitan cliff, located in Yosemite National Park, California. El Capitan is one of several iconic granitic cliffs in Yosemite and rises approximately 1000 meters above the floor of Yosemite Valley. The scans were collected from the same location and from a single vantage point on the edge of El Capitan...

This dataset includes processed ground-motion records and horizontal pseudospectral accelerations (5-percent-damped) from magnitude 4.0-6.4 earthquakes occurring near Puerto Rico between 2006 and 2024. The dataset includes 10,127 records from 849 earthquakes and 71 stations passing automated and manual review. Spectral values are provided at 21 periods (0.01-10 s). It also includes site

During December 2022 and April 2023, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with U.S. Water Partnership, collected ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data in select small subwatersheds and arroyos within the Los Planes watershed south of La Paz in southern Baja California Sur, Mexico to map the depth to bedrock for use as inputs to a groundwater flow model. This data release contains the...

This metadata record describes a series of datasets containing metrics used to characterize drought for groundwater wells in the conterminous United States (CONUS). This data is associated with a publication that looks to answer questions about groundwater drought in CONUS. The publication uses the time periods 1981-2020 and 2001-2020, but this dataset includes additional time periods...

The U.S. Geological Survey measured groundwater levels and surface-water stages on March 28, 2023, near the Quashnet River in the town of Mashpee on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Groundwater levels and surface-water stages were measured over a ~7 hour time period to provide a synoptic snapshot of the water table and the water surfaces of streams, lakes, wetlands, and drainage ditches. The

As part of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) efforts in the Delaware River Basin (DRB), a soil moisture sensing testbed was established at USGS Delaware County Observation Well - DE 723 located in a managed meadow setting in Glen Mills, PA. Traditional in situ soil moisture sensors, a remote sensing cosmic ray neutron sensor (CRNS), and...

This data release contains analytical results from 52 groundwater samples and six quality assurance and quality control samples collected from central New York and the Upper Hudson River Basin. Samples were collected between June and October, 2022 from 15 production wells and 16 domestic wells in central New York, and 11 production wells and 10 domestic wells in the Upper Hudson River...