The new seismic hazard model found nearly 500 new faults nationwide. Six of the newly found faults were discovered in Colorado. "These maps are made so that we can understand where future ...

Some 230 million people in the United States face the potential of damaging earthquakes in 100 years, according to the latest U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model, or NSHM. That’s about 40 million ...

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.

“The new seismic hazard model represents a touchstone achievement for enhancing public safety.” As part of the NSHM findings, researchers created a color-coded map that pinpoints areas in the ...

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 ...

Therefore, tough choices are required and decisions about how to allocate resources are often based on earthquake hazard maps to predict how much shaking to expect over the many years buildings ...

a new United States Geological Survey map shows. The new USGS National Seismic Hazard Model released Tuesday -- nearly 30 years to the day of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in Los Angeles -- shows ...