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Illustrations
Map illustration showing bathymetry, or depth, and a fault offshore of the Alaskan coastline.

Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault
Illustrations
Map illustration showing fault lines and direction of tectonic plate movement along a stretch of the Alaskan coastline.

Study region along the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault
Illustrations
Computer-generated illustration of colored, high-resolution seafloor map clearly shows a fault and where the seafloor is offset.

Seafloor trace of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault
Animated GIF
An animation showing tectonic faults across the Eastern Pacific from space, including the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault

An animation showing tectonic faults across the Eastern Pacific Ocean from space, including the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault
Center News
Three panels with bright colors showing underwater bathymetry features

Striking New Seafloor Imagery of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault in the Gulf of Alaska

Center News
An animation showing tectonic faults across the Eastern Pacific from space, including the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault

Mapping the Entire Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault System

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

Radiocarbon age dating of biological material from cores collected off British Columbia, Canada and southeastern Alaska, U.S. along the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault zone

Program
Fault offset along the Queen Charlotte Fault

Characterizing the Active Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault System

Center News
Map illustration showing fault lines and direction of tectonic plate movement along a stretch of the Alaskan coastline.

Investigating the Offshore Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault System in Southeastern Alaska, and its Potential to Produce Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Submarine Landslides

Center News
Photo of a large ship that is stationary and floating in smooth inlet water with its lights reflecting in the water.

Expedition along a Hazardous, Fast-Moving Fault off Southeast Alaska—the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault

Charts or Graphs
Brown lines across the image describe the fault, with labeled features, depth, and width

Multichannel seismic-reflection profile from Queen Charlotte-Fault
Project
Map illustration showing fault lines and direction of tectonic plate movement along a stretch of the Alaskan coastline.

Earthquake Hazards in Southeastern Alaska

Photography
Four scientists stand around a table in a lab with gray sediment core samples on the table, and they are examining the sediment.

Selecting sediment samples from cores
Illustrations
Map shows a coastal area from above with undersea features visible, and lines drawn on top to show research ship tracklines.

Yakobi Sea Valley
Illustrations
3 different views created using multibeam bathymetry data show the fault in bright colors

Perspective views of multibeam bathymetry data acquired by the USGS
Charts or Graphs
Three panels with bright colors showing underwater bathymetry features

Perspective views of multibeam bathymetry data acquired by the USGS

Charts or Graphs
Two maps; the left hand one shows brown land, blue water, and red arrows. The right hand one shows colored survey tracklines

Maps with key features and shaded relief of the study area
Center News
Four scientists stand around a table in a lab with gray sediment core samples on the table, and they are examining the sediment.

Laboratory collaboration to study earthquake hazards off southeast Alaska and western Canada

publication
image of publications layered on a wooden table

Plate boundary localization, slip-rates and rupture segmentation of the Queen Charlotte Fault based on submarine tectonic geomorphology

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

Multibeam and multichannel sparker seismic-reflection data between Cross Sound and Dixon Entrance, offshore southeastern Alaska, collected from 2016-05-17 to 2016-06-12 during field activity 2016-625-FA

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

Multibeam bathymetry and backscatter data collected in the eastern Gulf of Alaska during USGS Field Activity 2016-625-FA using a Reson 7160 multibeam echosounder

Photography
View looks out from a boat with instruments mounted on the side, over the water and in the far distance are snow-capped peaks.

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

Multichannel minisparker seismic-reflection data collected offshore Glacier Bay National Park during USGS field activity 2015-629-FA

newsletter
Map illustration showing fault lines and direction of tectonic plate movement along a stretch of the Alaskan coastline.

Sound Waves Newsletter - December 2015-January 2016
Photography
Boats docked in a marina sit in extremely calm waters in which clouds, sky, and boats are all reflected. Mountains in background

Alaska DFG vessel Solstice
National News Release
3 men leaning over big yellow metal grab bucket on the deck of a ship. Dark sediment is visible inside bucket

U.S. and Canadian Scientists Explore Major Undersea Earthquake Fault

Illustrations
Cross-section illustration showing structure beneath the seafloor with mostly horizontal lines but one clear offset section wher

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

Multichannel sparker seismic-reflection data of field activity 2016-656-FA; between Icy Point and Dixon Entrance, Gulf of Alaska from 2016-08-07 to 2016-08-26

publication
image of publications layered on a wooden table

Exploring GPS observations of postseismic deformation following the 2012 MW7.8 Haida Gwaii and 2013 MW7.5 Craig, Alaska Earthquakes: Implications for viscoelastic Earth structure

Photography
boom & pulley w/ long slender equipment hanging over side of ship w/ 3 people in hard hats & life preservers standing at rail

Collecting a piston core of seafloor sediment off British Columbia
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