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New! A Ready to Recover podcast about geologic hazard portals

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The latest Ready to Recover podcast looks at geologic portals, interactive tools that people can use to learn about the earthquake hazard in their area. Many state geological surveys provide public access to such portals on their websites.

Episode 8: What Can a State Geologic Portal Reveal About Your Earthquake Hazard?

Listen in as Corina Allen, Chief Hazards Geologist at the Washington Geological Survey, Jeri Young Ben-Horin, Research Scientist with the Arizona Geological Survey, and Adam Hiscock, Project Geologist in the Geologic Hazards Program at the Utah Geological Survey, explain what such portals can reveal about earthquakes and related hazards.

You can access the recording – along with a transcript, speakers’ bios, and show notes – on the Ready to Recover site (podcasts.crew.org), or listen via these podcast apps: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music (just search for Ready to Recover).

“Nearly 75% of the United States Could Experience a Damaging Earthquake”

Color-coded map of the contiguous U.S., plus Alaska (above) and Hawaii (below).
National Seismic Hazard Model (2023). Map displays the likelihood of damaging earthquake shaking in the United States over the next 100 years.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently published a new color-coded map of all 50 states showing where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur. The map was created using a comprehensively updated USGS National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM). “The update includes more faults, better-characterized land surfaces, and computational advancements in modeling that provide the most detailed view ever of the earthquake risks we face,” said Mark Petersen, the USGS geophysicist and lead author of the study that produced the map.

Read the USGS announcement and view the map.

Learn about the scientific assessment behind the map: article in the journal Earthquake Spectra