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Data for Frictional Properties and 3-D Stress Analysis of the Southern Alpine Fault, New Zealand (2013) New Zealand’s Alpine Fault (AF) ruptures quasi-periodically in large-magnitude earthquakes. Paleoseismological evidence suggests that about half of all recognized AF earthquakes terminated at the boundary between the Central and South Westland sections of the fault. There, fault geometry and the polarity of uplift change. The South Westland AF exhibits oblique-normal fault motion on a structure oriented 055/82SE that, for at least 35 km along strike, contains saponite-rich principal slip zone gouges. New hydrothermal friction experiments reveal that the saponite fault gouge is frictionally weak, exhibiting friction coefficients between =0.12 and =0.16 for a range of temperatures (T=25–210 C) and effective normal... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Geophysics, New Zealand, Structural Geology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), earthquake hazard, All tags... frictional strength, stress state, Fewer tags Landslide Inventories across the United States Landslides are damaging and deadly, and they occur in every U.S. state. However, our current ability to understand landslide hazards at the national scale is limited, in part because spatial data on landslide occurrence across the U.S. varies greatly in quality, accessibility, and extent. Landslide inventories are typically collected and maintained by different agencies and institutions, usually within specific jurisdictional boundaries, and often with varied objectives and information attributes or even in disparate formats. The purpose of this data release is to provide an openly accessible, centralized map of existing information on landslide occurrence across the entire U.S. The data release includes digital... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GHSC, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Landslide Hazard Program, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... United States, geology, geoscientificInformation, gis, ground failure, landslide, landslide hazard, landslides, Fewer tags High-resolution seismic data acquired at northern Año Nuevo, California The U.S. Geological Survey acquired high-resolution P- and S-wave seismic data across the Frijoles Fault strand of the San Gregorio Fault Zone (SGFZ) at northern Año Nuevo, California in 2012. SGFZ is a right-lateral fault system that is mainly offshore, and prior studies provide highly variable slip estimates, which indicates uncertainty about the seismic hazard it poses. Therefore, the primary goal of the seismic survey was to better understand the structure and geometry of the onshore section of the Frijoles Fault strand of the SGFZ. We deployed 118 geophones (channels) at 5-m spacing along a linear profile centered on the mapped surface trace of the Frijoles Fault and co-located active P- and S-wave sources... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Ano Nuevo, California, Central California Coastal, Geophysics, Seismology, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), earthquake zone, earthquakes, fault, fault zones, geoscientificInformation, hazards, seismic methods, seismic refraction methods, tomography, Fewer tags 2020 Update to the Quaternary Fault and Fold Database for Washington State This release is an update to the online "Quaternary fault and fold database" for Washington State. The online database was last updated for Washington in 2014 – this 2020 update includes newly identified and modified traces and geometries for on-shore faults gleaned from new peer-reviewed studies and mapping of active faults within the state of Washington. These data contain lines representing the location of faults with known or suspected Quaternary (<1,600,000 yrs) activity in the state of Washington. This data was compiled in conjunction with the Washington State Geological Survey. Faults are attributed following the Quaternary fault and fold database attributes, including information such as age, slip sense,... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: Faulting, Geomorphology, Quaternary, Seismic, Seismology, All tags... Structural Geology, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Washington State, Fewer tags Postfire Debris-Flow Database (Literature Derived) The data presented in this data release represent observations of postfire debris flows that have been collected from publicly available datasets. Data originate from 13 different countries: the United States, Australia, China, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, South Korea, and Japan. The data are located in the file called “PFDF_database_sortedbyReference.txt” and a description of each column header can be found in both the file “column_headers.txt” and the metadata file (“Post-fire Debris-Flow Database (Literature Derived).xml”). The observations are derived from areas that have been burned by wildfire and are global in nature. However, this dataset is synthesized... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, China, Debris Flow, Greece, Italy, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wildfire, environment, health, none, oceans, Fewer tags Data for P- and S-wave Seismic Velocity Models Incorporating the Cascadia Subduction Zone for 3D Earthquake Ground Motion simulations- Update for Open-File Report 2007-1348 The data for this release is an ASCII file containing grid points of Cascadia P- and S-wave velocity models. The model volume was developed to include the Cascadia subduction zone for purposes of ground motion simulation. The description of the model and background of its development is provided in the associated Open-File Report. The grid points are given in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 10 North coordinates for East and North locations, and the grid point depths are given in meters below mean sea level. Grid point spacing is 500 meters in each ordinal direction. The model region extends approximately from 40.2°N to 50°N latitude, and approximately from 122°W to 129°W longitude. The maximum depth of... Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Cascadia subduction zone, EHP, Earthquake Hazards Program, GHSC, All tags... Geologic Hazards Science Center, P- and S-wave velocity models, Seismology, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), earth science, earthquake hazard, ground motion simulation, Fewer tags Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio in Cape Cod National Seashore salt marsh complex, Massachusetts Note: The 2021 data release "Geospatial characterization of salt marshes for Massachusetts" is a more recent and comprehensive MA salt marsh dataset. (https://doi.org/10.5066/P97E086F) Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio (UVVR) in the Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO) salt marsh complex and approximal wetlands is computed based on conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2019). UVVR was calculated based on U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) 1-meter resolution imagery. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barnstable County, Cape Cod Bay, Cape Cod National Seashore, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Herring Cove, LTER, Little Pleasant Bay, Long-Term Ecological Research, Massachusetts, Outer Cape, Remote Sensing, UVVR, United States, Wellfleet Harbor, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Conceptual marsh units for Cape Cod National Seashore salt marsh complex, Massachusetts Note: The 2021 data release "Geospatial characterization of salt marshes for Massachusetts" is a more recent and comprehensive MA salt marsh dataset. (https://doi.org/10.5066/P97E086F) The salt marsh complex of Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO), Massachusetts, USA and approximal wetlands were delineated to smaller, conceptual marsh units by geoprocessing of surface elevation data. Flow accumulation based on the relative elevation of each location is used to determine the ridge lines that separate each marsh unit while the surface slope is used to automatically assign each unit a drainage point, where water is expected to drain through. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan,... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barnstable County, Cape Cod Bay, Cape Cod National Seashore, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Herring Cove, LTER, Little Pleasant Bay, Long-Term Ecological Research, Massachusetts, Outer Cape, Remote Sensing, United States, Wellfleet Harbor, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Monitoring data from the Aleppo rockslide, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, November 2013 - December 2018 Upon reactivation, movement of deep-seated landslides in the Greater Pittsburgh region may persist for long periods of time. Monitoring equipment was located at two sites on a deep-seated rockslide in Aleppo Township, Pennsylvania to establish relationships between precipitation and changes in the state of activity and velocity. Precipitation, snow depth, and air temperature are monitored at a weather station (ARS_WS) located in a relatively flat, open area in the northern part of the rockslide. Displacement and soil moisture are monitored at a second site located in the southern part of a graben (ARS_GR) in the head of the rockslide. At ARS_WS, instrumentation includes a tipping bucket rain gauge, temperature probe,... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Allegheny County, Geomorphology, Hydrology, Soil Sciences, Township of Aleppo, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), kinematics, landslide, Fewer tags Catalog of relocated earthquake hypocenters and local velocity model for the 2016 Mw 5.8 Pawnee, Oklahoma, sequence This dataset contains the supplemental information for the article "Oklahoma experiences largest earthquake during ongoing regional wastewater injection hazard mitigation efforts" published in Geophysical Research Letters (Yeck and others, 2017). Included is a table of relocated earthquake hypocenters and the velocity model used in the event relocations. These locations form the basis of the analysis presented in the article. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Pawnee, Oklahoma, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, earth science, All tags... earthquake hazard, earthquake hazards program, geologic hazards science center, geophysics, hypocenter, seismic hazard, seismology, Fewer tags Elevation of marsh units in Cape Cod National Seashore salt marsh complex, Massachusetts Note: The 2021 data release "Geospatial characterization of salt marshes for Massachusetts" is a more recent and comprehensive MA salt marsh dataset. (https://doi.org/10.5066/P97E086F) Elevation distribution in the Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO) salt marsh complex and approximal wetlands is given in terms of mean elevation of conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2019). The elevation data is based on the 1-meter resolution Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED), where data gaps exist. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands.... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barnstable County, Cape Cod Bay, Cape Cod National Seashore, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Herring Cove, LTER, Little Pleasant Bay, Long-Term Ecological Research, Massachusetts, Outer Cape, Remote Sensing, United States, Wellfleet Harbor, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, elevation, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Field observations of ground failure triggered by the 2020 Puerto Rico earthquake sequence This dataset consists of over 800 field observations of ground failure (landslides, lateral spreading, and liquefaction) and other damage triggered by the 2019-2020 Puerto Rico earthquake sequence. The sequence started with a M4.7 earthquake on 28 December 2019, followed by many more earthquakes, including 15 larger than M5 (as of 7 July 2020). The M6.4 mainshock, which is thought to have triggered much of the observed ground failure, occurred on 7 January 2020. Most field reconnaissance efforts documented here took place as soon as possible after the mainshock, from 12-18 January 2020, to attempt to capture ephemeral data before evidence was destroyed by natural forces or repairs, but observations continued to... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Earthquake Hazards Program, GHSC, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Guayanilla, Guánica, All tags... Landslide Hazards Program, Peñuelas, Ponce, Puerto Rico, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, earth science, earthquake hazard, geophysics, landslides, lateral spread, liquefaction, none, rock fall, seismic hazard, seismology, Fewer tags Influence of Lithostatic Stress on Earthquake Stress Drops in North America Earthquake stress drop is a critical parameter for estimating seismic hazard. This parameter can have a strong effect on ground motion amplitudes above ~1Hz and is especially important in Oklahoma and Kansas where earthquake rates have increased sharply since 2008. We estimate stress drops for 1121 earthquakes greater than ~M3 in and near the conterminous United States using spectral ratios between collocated events at given stations. We find that the average stress drop for the few eastern United States (EUS, 26–340 Bars) tectonic main shocks studied, which tend to be deeper thrusting events with few foreshocks and aftershocks, is about three times greater than tectonic main shocks in the western United States... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Brune stress drop, Earthquake Hazards Program, GHSC, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Geophysics, All tags... Kansas, Mohr-Coulomb theory, North America, Oklahoma, Seismology, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, earthquake, earthquake hazard, earthquake stress drop, geophysics, ground motion amplitude, high frequency shaking hazard, lithostatic stress, seismic hazard, seismology, shear failure stress, tectonic, Fewer tags Database for the geologic map of the northern Harrat Rahat volcanic field, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The Harrat Rahat volcanic field, located in the west-central part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is the largest of 15 harrats (Arabic for 'volcanic field') hosted within the Arabian plate. Harrat Rahat is 50 to 75 km wide (east-west) and 300 km long (north-south), covering an area of approximately 20,000 square kilometers and encompassing more than 900 observable vents. The overall map area and its dataset show the volcanic geology of the northern part (about 3,340 square kilometers) of Harrat Rahat, at a scale of 1:75,000. Two additional map areas and their feature classes highlight areas of interest at 1:25,000 scale. Northern Harrat Rahat is of interest owing to the location of the city of Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, Basalt, Benmoreite, Harrat Rahat volcanic field, Lava flow, All tags... Mugearite, Saudi Arabia, Trachyte, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), geology, geoscientificInformation, volcanic activity, Fewer tags Lifespan of Chesapeake Bay salt marsh units Lifespan distribution in the Chesapeake Bay (CB) salt marsh complex is presented in terms of lifespan of conceptual marsh units defined by Ackerman and others (2022). The lifespan calculation is based on estimated sediment supply and sea-level rise (SLR) predictions after Ganju and others (2020). Sea level predictions are present day estimates at the prescribed rate of SLR, which correspond to the 0.3, 0.5, and 1.0 meter increase in Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) scenarios by 2100 from Sweet and others (2022). Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands,... Categories: Data, Data Release - In Progress; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, LTER, Long-Term Ecological Research, Maryland, All tags... United States, Virginia, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, elevation, environment, estuarine processes, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, lifespan, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, sea-level change, sediment transport, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Data for Holocene fault reactivation in the eastern Cascades, WA Significant uncertainty remains in how and where crustal shortening occurs throughout the eastern Cascade Range in Washington State. Using lidar imagery, we identified a ~5 km long lineament in Swakane canyon near Wenatchee, roughly coincident with a strand of the Entiat fault. Topographic profiles across the lineament reveal a southwest-side-up break in slope with an average of ~3 m of vertical separation of the hillslope surface. We consider a range of possible origins for this feature, including differential erosion across a fault-line scarp, slope failure (sackung or landslide), and surface deformation across an active fault strand. Based on trenching, radiocarbon and luminescence dating, and ground penetrating... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cascades, Washington, EHP, Earthquake Hazards Program, GHSC, Geologic Hazards Science Center, All tags... Holocene, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), earth science, earthquake hazard, fault, Fewer tags An Updated Vs30 Map for California with Geologic and Topographic Constraints (ver. 2.0, July 2022) This data release provides a map of the time-averaged shear-wave velocity in the upper 30 m (Vs30) for California using the method described by Thompson and others (2014). There are two adjustments to the algorithm described by Thompson and others (2014), which is built on the geology-based Vs30 map by Wills and Clahan (2006). In this data release, we use the Wills and others (2015) updated geology-based Vs30 map. The second change is that we have adjusted the kriging procedure so that measured Vs30 values do not affect the predictions across distinctly different geologic units. July 2022 Update (ver. 2.0) Resolution is now 3 arcseconds instead of 7.5 arcseconds Fixed a code error that prevented some of the Vs30... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Raster; Tags: California, Earthquake Hazards Program, GHSC, Geologic Hazards Science Center, USGS, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, earth science, earthquake hazard, geophysics, seismic hazard, seismology, tectonic, Fewer tags Colorimeter data for the summit water lake at Kīlauea Volcano, Island of Hawaiʻi, 2020 In 2018, a large effusive eruption on the lower flank of Kīlauea Volcano was associated with collapse and subsidence of the summit caldera floor (Neal and others, 2019). The bottom of Halemaʻumaʻu, a crater nested within the summit caldera, subsided by more than 500 m. In July 2019, water was observed ponding on the deepest part of the Halemaʻumaʻu crater floor and the water rose and enlarged in area steadily over the next 16 months (Ingebritsen and others, 2020; Nadeau and others, 2020; Patrick and others, 2021). During the course of the rise, the lake surface appearance was highly dynamic and segmented, showing regions of variable color that changed from day to day (Nadeau and others, 2020). In June 2020 staff... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Halemaʻumaʻu, Hydrology, Kīlauea Crater, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Volcanology, colorimeter, crater lake, geoscientificInformation, hydrology, volcanic activity, volcano monitoring, volcanology, Fewer tags Classified point cloud and gridded elevation data from the 2005 B4 Lidar Project, southern California, USA This data set is derived from the original 2005 data collected over the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto fault zones in southern California, USA. These data have provided a fundamental resource for study of active faulting in southern California since they were released in 2005. However, these data were not classified in a manner that allowed for easy differentiation between bare ground surfaces and the objects and vegetation above that surface. This reprocessed (classified) dataset allows researchers easy and direct access to a "bare-earth" digital elevation data set as gridded half-meter resolution rasters (elevation and shaded relief), "full-feature" digital elevation models as gridded one-meter resolution... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, LiDAR, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC) Post-wildfire debris-flow monitoring data, 2014 Silverado Fire, Orange County, California, November 2014 to January 2016 This data release includes time-series data from two monitoring stations in a small drainage basin burned in the 2014 Silverado Fire, Orange County, California. One station (upper station) is located in the headwaters of the study area (33 45’39.10”N, 117 35’17.48”W, WGS84). The other station (lower station) is located at the outlet of the study area (33 45’04.61”N, 117 35’12.54”W). The data were collected between November 15, 2014 and January 14, 2016. The data include continuous 1-minute time series of rainfall and soil water content recorded at the both stations and intermittent (during rain storms) 50-Hz time series of flow-induced ground vibrations recorded by geophones at the lower station. The soil water... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GHSC, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Landslides Hazards Program, Orange County, California, USGS, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), debris flow, drainage basin, earth science, fire, geophysics, heterogeneous infiltration capacity, infiltration capacity, landslide, landslide hazard, rainfall, seismology, soil water content, wildfire, Fewer tags 1 2 »