U. S. Geological Survey

Other Hazards Information from USGS

Visit USGS Water Resources of Washington State for real-time water data and river basin maps

USGS News Releases

Pacific Northwest Flooding Landslides--USGS Press release on Pacific Northwest flooding

USGS Open File Reports (OFR)

OFR-95-642 History and Hazards of Mount Rainier, Washington
OFR-94-585 Preparing for The Next Eruption in the Cascades
OFR-93-111 History of Landslides and Debris Flows at Mount Rainier
OFR-93-124 Glacier-generated debris flows at Mount Rainier
OFR-92-474 Glaciers on Mount Rainier

USGS Fact Sheets (FS)

FS-176-95 Saving Lives Through Better Design Standards
FS-242-95 Quake Forecasting--An Emerging Capability
FS-183-96 Hazard maps help save lives and property
FS-167-95 Building Safer Structures
FS-111-95 Averting Surprises in the Pacific Northwest
FS-061-95 Natural Hazards Program: Lessons Learned for Reducing Risk

USGS information on Volcanoes and Landslides

Volcanoes information index of USGS resources
USGS Geologic Hazards Team
Woodway, WA Landslides Monitoring
Landslide News and Information

USGS Volcano Observatory Web Pages

Alaska Volcano Observatory
Cascades Volcano Observatory
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Long Valley Caldera

Other references

USGS Circular 1073, "Living with Volcanos"

Schimmrich, Stephen Henry and Gore, Pamela J. W., 1996, Exploring Geology
 on the World Wide Web--Volcanoes and Volcanism: Journal of Geoscience
 Education, v. 44, n. 4, p. 448-450.

Brantley, Stephen R., 1995, Volcanoes of the United States: Denver, CO,
 USGS, USGPO # O-164-937, 44 p.

Spencer, Edgar Winston, 1972, The Dynamics of the Earth--An Introduction
  to Physical Geology: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 649 p.

Other resources

Earthquakes and Risk Assessment in the Pacific Northwest

Volcano, Flood, Tsunami or Wildfire Hazards in Washington (not earthquakes)

General search for Puget (Sound)

Loss estimation, Damage Assessment, Economic Impacts and Analysis in Washington State


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Updated:  8 April 1999