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The Landslide Hazards Program produces maps indicating both historical landslide locations and potential future landslide risks. These maps are typically paired with geospatial data products, which help assess hazard levels, and can be useful for risk-reduction and land-use planning.  

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Landslide susceptibility in San Mateo County, California Landslide susceptibility in San Mateo County, California

Information on areas susceptible to failure by landsliding is available in many general geologic maps and reports. However, it is commonly presented in complex, technical language, together with data not connected with slope stability. This derivative map is intended to convey such information in nontechnical form so that it will be intelligible to the non-geologist. It portrays only...

Preliminary photointerpretation map of landslide and other surficial deposits of the Mount Hamilton quadrangle and parts of the Mount Boardman and San Jose quadrangles, Alameda and Santa Clara Counties, California Preliminary photointerpretation map of landslide and other surficial deposits of the Mount Hamilton quadrangle and parts of the Mount Boardman and San Jose quadrangles, Alameda and Santa Clara Counties, California

The nine San Francisco Bay region counties lie within a geologically active, young, and dynamic part of the central and northern Coast Ranges of California. Significant movements of the earth's crust are occurring here at the present time, posing numerous problems to urbanization, including some of special concern. Geological processes such as fault movements, earthquakes, land...
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