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How will my house hold up in an earthquake? Can the USGS send someone out to evaluate my property?

Just a few months ago, the USGS also downgraded its estimates of future new discoveries around Greenland by 38bn barrels.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) says that it was the most violent earthquake to strike the impoverished country in a century.

"Why would such a system work? " asked , a geologist at the USGS, at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting Monday.

Potter said the USGS does not issue aftershock predictions.

One of the big products of USGS is a map showing the earthquake hazard in the United States, where it is highest, moderate and low.

In the past, people could report ground shaking in their neighborhood only by going to the USGS Web site and filling out a questionnaire.

And just as a reminder, the USGS CoreCast is a product of the US Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.

The USGS publishes its earthquake data in the form of a weekly CSV (or comma-separated values) file.

LDCM is a component of the Landsat Program conducted jointly by NASA and the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) of the Department of Interior.

There is much more freshwater stored in the ground than there is in liquid form on the surface, according to the USGS.

The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) released an extremely popular global DEM data set into the public domain several years ago.

Be capable of Links to: Urban Groundwater Database, USGS Water Resources Information & WWW Virtual Library - Environment.

The quake struck just 10 miles southwest of the impoverished nation's teeming capital of Port-au-Prince, the U. S. Geological Survey said.

The USGS and the state of California engaged in a really careful experiment on earthquake prediction.

The USGS provided critical measurements and modeling of freshwater and nutrient delivery to coastal waters throughout the Nation.

Indeed, USGS documentation shows extremes due to liquefaction between the West Coast and the East Coast.

Goldfinger and his colleagues expect to publish the data in an upcoming USGS report.

However, you can still get a front-row seat for the Kilauea volcano eruptions via the USGS observatory's live webcam.

The USGS then compared the new report's findings with past data, and found that Americans have done more with less water since 1975.

NASA and the Department of Interior's U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) share responsibility for the satellites' space and ground segments.

Still, Brian Atwater, a USGS geologist, said that in recent history nothing of this magnitude had occurred in the area.

According to the USGS, the Chile earthquake occurred at the boundary between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates.

"It's part of an elite class of giant earthquakes, " said USGS geologist Brian Atwater.

Joining me by phone today is Dr. Harley Benz, Scientist-in-Charge with the National Earthquake Information Center with the USGS.

An aftershock hit about half an hour later, with a preliminary magnitude of 4. 8 and a depth of 6 miles, the USGS said.

According to the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Bakken formation could contain a mind-boggling 413 billion barrels of oil in place.

The epicenter of the quake was about 160 km (100 miles) southwest of the island's capital Denpasar, the U. S. geological survey said.

The USGS and its partners operate a network of permanent stations, but it is limited by cost and otherfactors.

Research geophysicist Malcom Johnston with the USGS says that blaming such events on the moon's orbit is not a new idea.

To participate, residents must have a wireless Internet connection to allow the device to communicate with the USGS network.

Take a look at usgs-airports. xml in Listing 5. It is an example of the GML format.

Question: As of late, I have observed that USGS and EMSC are a bit lax on their reports of earthquakes.

Images and captions courtesy USGS. High-resolution images.

Two more earthquakes -- measuring 6. 0 and 5. 4 magnitudes -- happened nearby over the next hour, the USGS reported.

The USGS said it has recorded hundreds of small quakes in the area since 1990.

Subsequent reports from the US Geological Survey (USGS) place the magnitude of the tremor at 4. 2 on the Richter scale.

The first statement in the mapping block links the AirportMapping class to the usgs_airports table.

The new study was conducted by the US Geological Survey (USGS), a scientific agency run by the government.

The same data are freely accessible through Internet portals from NASA, USGS, Michigan State University and the University of Maryland.

What kind of excuses do the Zetas think NASA, the USGS and the gov't. will offer when the quakes continue and the wobble worsens?

This research comes from a 2009-2011 USGS study funded by the DOD Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO).

The quake struck 214km (133 miles) south of Aceh's capital of Banda Aceh, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Since 2003 I have served as Associate Coordinator of the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, in Reston, VA.

Even though there is currently no way to predict earthquakes, seismologist Mike Blanpied of the USGS has grounds for optimism.

In fact, USGS geophysicist Ross Stein called the country an "earthquake hatchery. "

In this effort, the USGS is working with the JMA, the German Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Chinese Earthquake Administration.

The epicenter was 13 miles (20 km) southwest of the coastal region of Laupahoehoe and 189 miles (304 km) east of Honolulu, the USGS said.

Not surprisingly, the USGS fields don't match up with the Airport class that is already in use.

The USGS put the magnitude of the quake at 5. 7, while China's official Xinhua news agency said it measured 6. 1.

The USGS reported the latest aftershock struck 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Concepcion at a depth of 18 miles (29 km).

USGS also recorded two strong aftershocks -- of magnitudes 5. 2 and 5. 3 -- within half an hour of the quake.

I am a geophysicist and have done earthquake work at the USGS since 1989 (just before the Loma Prieta "World Series" earthquake).

The USGS reported the quake as magnitude 6. 5 but later revised the figure to 6. 2, also moving the epicenter slightly.

Since 1973, there have been 13 events of magnitude 7. 0 or greater, according to the USGS.

Since 1973, 13 temblors of magnitude 7. 0 or greater have occurred there, according to the USGS.

Arguably, the best web-based data source is the USGS Seamless Data Server (see Resources), which offers an enormous amount of data coverage.

The quake was 4. 8 miles (7. 7 km) deep and struck in the sea near the east coast of Honshu, the largest Island in Japan, the USGS said.

Exchange 2007 uses the Exchange 2007 split permissions model that is based on Universal Security Groups (USGs).

Type the following at the command prompt to insert the data in the usgs_airports. xml file into the newly created table

The USGS initially reported the aftershock had a 6. 8 magnitude. (Reporting by Will Dunham)

New Round of Assessment on Oil and Gas Resources by USGS