Publications - General Information

General Interest Publications

• Earthquake science explained: a series of ten short articles for students, teachers, and families
  (GIP-21)
• Facing the Great Disaster How the Men and Women of the U.S. Geological Survey Responded to the 1906 “San Francisco Earthquake”
  (GIP-31)
• Where's the San Andreas fault? A guidebook to tracing the fault on public lands in the San Francisco Bay region
  (GIP-16)
• USGS Library
  Searchable database of USGS Authored Publications
• The Severity of an Earthquake
  understanding intensity and magnitude
• The San Andreas Fault
  What? Where? When? Why? read all about it!
• Our Changing Continents
  introduction to paleogeography, the study of changes in the earth's surface
• The Interior of the Earth
  description of earth's crust, mantle, and core
• Geologic Time
  discussion of how geoscientists determine age of rocks on the earth
• Earthquakes
  overview

Plate Tectonics Publications

• Subduction Zone and Crustal Dynamics of Western Washington: A Tectonic Model for Earthquake Hazards Evaluation
• How to Build a Model Illustrating Sea-Floor Spreading and Subduction
• This Dynamic Earth - the Story of Plate Tectonics

Tsunami Publications

• Improving Earthquake and Tsunami Warnings for the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Coast
  (FS-2006-3012)
• Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Helping Coastal Communities at Risk from Tsunamis–The Role of U.S. Geological Survey Research
• Surviving a Tsunami—Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan
  Spanish version