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Can a Creeping Segment of the Alaska-Aleutian Subduction Zone Generate a Great Earthquake?

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Peter Dal Ferro
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Cruise report for A1-98-SC southern California Earthquake Hazards Project

Research
Devastation of the coastal city of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Geologic Hazards and Catastrophic Events

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Cruise report for O1-99-SC Southern California Earthquake Hazards project

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Bathymetry and acoustic backscatter: Northern Santa Barbara Channel, Southern California

Featured Films and Shorts
Background of coral reefs beneath waves. Overlaid photo of a smiling Asian woman with long black hair wearing a USGS lifevest

Climate Science Champions Season 3: Renee Takesue, Research Geochemist
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3-D angular view of a bay inlet with a bridge spanning the inlet, the floor of the bay is shown as if the water is drained out.

California Seafloor Mapping Program applications

Center News
Diagram of the San Nicolas submarine landslide off the southern California coast

Seafloor Imaging Reveals Nearly 1,500 Submarine Landslides Off Southern California Coast

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Photograph of Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz, CA

Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz, California
Presentations and Events

PubTalk 4/2018 - Coral Reefs
Research
Poster with illustrations of the underwater part of the ocean, with text about the work done in the area.

Tsunami Hazards in the Santa Barbara Channel

Project
Fish on seafloor, Offshore Northern California

California Seafloor Mapping Program

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Three men working on the back of a small boat operating gear and moving equipment.

Working on R/V Parke Snavely
Project
Big Sur landslide on May 20, 2017 showing material across Highway 1.

The Mud Creek landslide on California’s Big Sur coast

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Multichannel minisparker and chirp seismic reflection data of USGS field activity 2016-616-FA collected in the Catalina Basin offshore southern California in February 2016

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Cascadia subduction zone database: compilation of published datasets relevant to Cascadia subduction zone earthquake hazards and tectonics (2022)

Center News
Computer model output looking at an angle, at seismic data represented by lines and swirls, with streams of color going upward.

USGS-Led Study Reassesses Earthquake Hazard Potential for Central California’s Hosgri Fault

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view of a lake with a raft of scientists in the middle extracting a sediment core

Wildcat Lake, California
Fieldwork
USGS air photo of the Mud Creek landslide, taken on May 27, 2017

The Mud Creek Landslide May 20 2017

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Bathymetry and acoustic backscatter: outer mainland shelf and slope, Gulf of Santa Catalina, southern California

Center News
Estuary and bird

USGS Current Drifter Ends Decades-Long Journey on Beach in San Pablo Bay

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High-resolution boomer seismic-reflection profiles of the shelf off southern California from cruise A-1-00-SC: Santa Monica Bay to San Diego

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Sub-bottom chirp data acquired in the Salton Sea, California, between 2006 and 2008

Center News
A man crouches next to an instrument as he prepares and secures it on board a ship.

Large Underwater Experiment Shows that “Turbidity Currents” are Not Just Currents, but Involve Movement of the Seafloor Itself

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The National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS compilation of vector shorelines and associated shoreline change data for the sandy shorelines of the California coast

Center News
View from the sky looks down on a roadway that runs along a coastal cliff, part of the road has washed away.

Intense storm washes out Highway 1 in Big Sur, again

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A small boat sits at a dock.

PCMSC vessel San Lorenzo
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Cruise report for A1-02-SC southern California CABRILLO project, Earthquake Hazards Task

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Bathymetry, acoustic backscatter, and seafloor character of Farallon Escarpment and Rittenburg Bank, northern California

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