Selected Science Products
Earthquake Science Center
- USGS ShakeCast (Fact Sheet 2007-3086)
- PAGER - Rapid assessment of an earthquake’s impact (Fact Sheet 2010-3036)
- Forecasting California's earthquakes: What can we expect in the next 30 years? (Fact Sheet 2008-3027)
- ShakeMap, a tool for earthquake response (Fact Sheet 087-03)
- ShakeAlert—An earthquake early warning system for the United States west coast (Fact Sheet 2014-3083)
- UCERF3: A new earthquake forecast for California's complex fault system (Fact Sheet 2015-3009)
- Earthquake outlook for the San Francisco Bay region 2014–2043 (Fact Sheet 2016-3020)
Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics
- Carbon Sequestration to Mitigate Climate Change (Fact Sheet 2008-3097)
- Precipitation history of the Mojave Desert region, 1893-2001 (Fact Sheet 117-03)
- Precipitation history of the Colorado Plateau region, 1900-2000 (Fact Sheet 119-02)
- Antimony: a flame fighter (Fact Sheet 2015-3021)
- Platinum-group elements: so many excellent properties (Fact Sheet 2014-3064)
- Rhenium: a rare metal critical in modern transportation (Fact Sheet 2014-3101)
- Remaining recoverable petroleum in giant oil fields of the Los Angeles Basin, southern California (Fact Sheet 2012-3120)
- Undiscovered Gas Resources in the Alum Shale, Denmark, 2013 (2013-3103)
Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
- Land-based lidar mapping: a new surveying technique to shed light on rapid topographic change (Fact Sheet 2006-3111)
- From ridge to reef—linking erosion and changing watersheds to impacts on the coral reef ecosystems of Hawai‘i and the Pacific Ocean (Fact Sheet 2011-3049)
- Fine-grained sediment dispersal along the California coast (Fact Sheet 2013-3023)
- Elwha River dam removal-Rebirth of a river (Fact Sheet 2011-3097)
- The SAFRR tsunami scenario: improving resilience for California (Fact Sheet 2013-3081)https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/fs15000
- Helping coastal communities at risk from tsunamis: the role of U.S. Geological Survey research (Fact Sheet 150-00)
Volcano Science Center
- Tracking Changes in Yellowstone's Restless Volcanic System (Fact Sheet 100-03)
- Invisible CO2 gas killing trees at Mammoth Mountain, California (Fact Sheet 172-96)
- California's restless giant: the Long Valley Caldera (Fact Sheet 2014-3056)
- The California Volcano Observatory: Monitoring the state's restless volcanoes (Fact Sheet 2014-3120)
- U.S. Geological Survey Volcano Hazards Program—Assess, forecast, prepare, engage (Fact Sheet 2016-3040)
Water Mission Area
- Contamination in Fractured-Rock Aquifers - Research at the former Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, New Jersey (Fact Sheet 2007-3074)
- Demonstrating usefulness of real-time monitoring at streambank wells coupled with active streamgages - Pilot studies in Wyoming, Montana, and Mississippi (Fact Sheet 2012-3054)
- USGS science at work in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta estuary (Fact Sheet 2013-3037)
- The role of snowpack, rainfall, and reservoirs in buffering California against drought effects (Fact Sheet 2016-3062)
Western Geographic Science Center
- Understanding risk and resilience to natural hazards (Fact Sheet 2011-3008)
- Geographic science for public and Tribal lands management (Fact Sheet 2011-3059)
- Decision-support systems for natural-hazards and land-management issues (Fact Sheet 2012-3001)
- Land-use and land-cover scenarios and spatial modeling at the regional scale (Fact Sheet 2012-3091)
- Future scenarios of impacts to ecosystem services on California rangelands (Fact Sheet 2014-3019)