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GSN field engineers from the Albuquerque Seismic Lab visited the northernmost town in the world Longyearbyen (Svalbard, Norway) on their way north to GSN station IU-KBS for a station upgrade. GSN station IU-KBS is located in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago. A sign reminding people of the polar bear danger just outside the building.

USGS Geologist S. Hecker examines sediments exposed in excavation along the Rodgers Creek fault near Windsor, California.

Alex Hatem, Jessie Jobe and Nadine Reitman make observations in a trench across Idaho’s Sawtooth fault, September, 2022.

Alex Hatem oversees trench excavation across the Sawtooth fault near Stanley Idaho, September, 2022.

USGS Geologists B. Philibosian and S. DeLong examine faulted sediment exposed in an uplifted marine terrace near Point Arena, California.

USGS summer intern, Sierra Rack points to the Gore Range fault during fieldwork near Frisco, Colorado, August, 2022.

USGS summer intern, Sierra Rack with Rich Briggs, Alex Hatem and Camille Collett enjoy views and geology near Mt. Sherman after a day of fieldwork in the Gore Range, Colorado.

Photo of a precariously balanced rock by Noah Lindberg from the northeastern U.S. taken during field work in August, 2022.

Noah Lindberg and Thomas Pratt observe and measure features of a precariously balanced rock in the northeastern U.S.

Devin McPhillips closely examines the base of a rock perched on the edge of a cliff at Little Sawyer Mountain in the Adirondacks. 

Scientist measuring aspects of a precariously balanced rock in the northeastern U.S.

Photo of a precariously balanced rock in northeastern U.S. These rocks will help scientists understand more about the maximum earthquake shaking to have occurred in the region.

Thomas Pratt sitting next to and measuring a precariously balanced rock in northeastern U.S.

Noah Lindberg and Devin McPhillips examining a precariously balanced rock on Mt. Elmore, Vermont. 

Devin McPhillips points to the contact point beneath a precariously balanced rock in northeastern U.S.

A map showing the epicenter of the M 3.5 quake that occurred 3.7 miles (6 km) east of Elgin, South Carolina on June 29, 2022. The quake is part of an ongoing sequence in central South Carolina. The sequence started on December 27, 2021, with an M3.3 earthquake near Lugoff, South Carolina.

Alex Hatem observes surface deformation from the 2020 Monte Cristo, Nevada, earthquake eroding away, June, 2022.

In June 2022, Mendenhall Fellow Sabine Loos (Research Civil Engineer in the Geological Hazards Science Center) presented a seminar to USGS's Earthquake Science Center at Moffett Field, CA, where Max Schneider (Research Statistician) works as a Mendenhall Fellow.

Rich Briggs and Alex Hatem make geologic observations within Nevada’s Monte Cristo Range, June, 2022.

Fault sections being used in the creation of the 2023 U.S. Seismic Hazard Maps. Blue lines are normal faults, yellow lines are reverse faults, and red lines are strike-slip faults.

Dr, Walter Mooney with three Bureau of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) training participants in Palu, Sulawesi.