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## Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Deploys New Equipment on Kīlauea Summit

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## Alarming Future for California's Coastline

### Computer modeling and new research predict significant erosion by 2100

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# Natural Hazards Mission Area

Every year in the United States, natural hazards threaten lives and livelihoods and result in billions of dollars in damage. We work with many partners to monitor, assess, and conduct targeted research on a wide range of natural hazards so that policymakers and the public have the understanding they need to enhance preparedness, response, and resilience.

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### Reducing Risk

USGS scientists develop new products to make science available to the public, emergency managers, and decision-makers. These efforts increase public safety and reduce risk and economic losses caused by natural hazards.

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### Subduction Zone Science

The most powerful earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, and volcanic eruptions occur in subduction zones, where two plates collide and one is thrust beneath another.

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## News

Restoring Marshes as a Cost-Effective Climate Adaptation Solution for San Mateo County

April 4, 2024

####   Restoring Marshes as a Cost-Effective Climate Adaptation Solution for San Mateo County

Extreme low-frequency waves on the Ofu, American Samoa, reef flat

April 3, 2024

####   Extreme low-frequency waves on the Ofu, American Samoa, reef flat

Strong Quake and Aftershocks Rattle Eastern Taiwan

April 3, 2024

####   Strong Quake and Aftershocks Rattle Eastern Taiwan

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## Publications

April 4, 2024

####                 Preliminary implications of viscoelastic ray theory for anelastic seismic tomography models              

Natural Hazards Mission Area, Earthquake Hazards Program, Earthquake Science Center

March 28, 2024

####                 Performance-based earthquake early warning for tall buildings              

Natural Hazards Mission Area, Earthquake Hazards Program, Earthquake Science Center

March 18, 2024

####                 Summary of Creepmeter Data from 1980 to 2020—Measurements Spanning the Hayward, Calaveras, and San Andreas Faults in Northern and Central California              

Natural Hazards Mission Area, Earthquake Hazards Program, Earthquake Science Center

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January 31, 2024

####                 Typhoon Merbok Disaster Emergency Recovery Efforts              

Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

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January 31, 2024

####   Typhoon Merbok Disaster Emergency Recovery Efforts

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January 5, 2024

####                 M6.7 January 17, 1994 Northridge, California Earthquake              

Natural Hazards Mission Area, Earthquake Hazards Program, Earthquake Science Center

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January 5, 2024

####   M6.7 January 17, 1994 Northridge, California Earthquake

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January 2, 2024

####                 2023 50-State Long-term National Seismic Hazard Model              

Natural Hazards Mission Area, Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Reducing Risk, Science for a Changing World, Subduction Zone Science

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January 2, 2024

####   2023 50-State Long-term National Seismic Hazard Model

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