Nearly 75% of the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii, could experience a damaging earthquake sometime within the next century, USGS study finds.

USGS releases new earthquake hazard map. By Monte Morin Assistant Managing Editor for News . July 17, 2014 3:30 PM PT . ... and several areas in the central and eastern United States. ...

However, we can access the hazard and potential threat of earthquakes in a particular area. ... The map uses data from more than 100 years of global earthquake observations to highlight areas that.

The risk assessments were derived in part from a US Geological Survey study that created earthquake models to help inform municipalities and insurance companies about such hazards. This map ...

On Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced updated U.S. National Seismic Hazard Maps, which reflect the most current scientific views on where future earthquakes will occur ...

While the West remains the USA's primary hot spot for earthquakes, hazards appear to be growing in parts of the eastern and central U.S., according to a report and map released Thursday by the U.S ...

T his colorful new map from the U.S. Geological Survey shows the areas across the United States that are most likely to experience a significant earthquake in the next 50 years.. In its update to ...

A seismic hazard map released Thursday by the U.S. Geological Survey might not be able to precisely say when The Big One will hit, but it does give insight into the intensity of potential earthquakes.

The U.S. Geological Survey's new seismic hazard maps, released this week, show two more earthquake faults in Western Washington: one near the Canadian border, the other east of Port Angeles.

A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the ...