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Fire plus Flood equals Beach

Fire plus Flood equals Beach

A new study combines decades of coastal satellite imagery with hydrologic and oceanographic data to look at how changes on land affect coastlines in...

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Photo Roundup - December 2020-March 2021

Photo Roundup - December 2020-March 2021

A selection of coastal and marine images and videos from across the USGS.

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Bringing USGS Science Expertise Together for Natural Hazards in Big Sur, CA

Bringing USGS Science Expertise Together for Natural Hazards in Big Sur, CA

Recent landslide activity along California’s Pacific coast in the region known as Big Sur has provided graphic examples of the power and impacts of...

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CONNECT! Natural Hazards Mission Area Facebook Account Exceeds 20K Followers, and New @USGS_Quakes Twitter Account Now Has More Than 200K Followers

CONNECT! Natural Hazards Mission Area Facebook Account Exceeds 20K Followers, and New @USGS_Quakes Twitter Account Now Has More Than 200K Followers

Through coordinated communication activities, the Natural Hazards Mission Area is committed to sharing news and science with broad audiences. Social...

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Photo Roundup - Coastal Change Hazards

Photo Roundup - Coastal Change Hazards

Multimedia documenting coastal change hazards research at the USGS

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Intense storm washes out Highway 1 in Big Sur, again

Intense storm washes out Highway 1 in Big Sur, again

USGS researchers respond to coastal hazards and wildfires: The intense storm that hit California’s coast between January 26 and 28, 2021, blew out a...

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USGS Science – Leading the Way for Preparedness

USGS Science – Leading the Way for Preparedness

Learn About USGS Hazards Science and More About National Preparedness Month: The very nature of natural hazards means that they have the potential to...

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Bend in an Offshore Fault Helps Shape the Rugged Terrain of California’s Big Sur Coast: New USGS Report on the San Gregorio-Hosgri Fault

Bend in an Offshore Fault Helps Shape the Rugged Terrain of California’s Big Sur Coast: New USGS Report on the San Gregorio-Hosgri Fault

New report on how the bend in an offshore fault helps shape the Big Sur coast

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Time-lapse view of California Highway 1 reconstruction after 2017 landslide

Time-lapse view of California Highway 1 reconstruction after 2017 landslide

USGS scientists produced an animated GIF in coordination with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) re-opening of State Highway 1...

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LA Times story about Big Sur landslide features quotes, imagery from USGS

LA Times story about Big Sur landslide features quotes, imagery from USGS

USGS geologists Jon Warrick and Kevin Schmidt are quoted in a November 9, 2017 Los Angeles Times story.

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Video shot from drones yields details about changing landslide on California’s Big Sur coast

Video shot from drones yields details about changing landslide on California’s Big Sur coast

On October 12, 2017, USGS unmanned aerial systems collected video footage of the Mud Creek landslide, which buried California State Highway 1 under a...

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