This incredible DVD-ROM has over 229,000 pages, much of it reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The disc contains nearly 4 gigabytes of material in over 37,000 files!
Contents include:
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program – Preparedness, Science and Technology, Glossary, Facts, Worldwide Earthquake Information, earthquake hazard reduction, survival information, news and highlights, Advanced National Seismic System, Archives, ground motion, much more.
USGS Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory – Central Region Geologic Hazards Team, Seismic Stations, Education Resources
USGS Ocean Bottom Seismometer Facility (OBS) system * USGS External Research Support, Current Research Projects, Reports
National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project, producing U.S. national maps showing earthquake ground motions that have a specified probability of being exceeded in 50 years, used in construction design for earthquake resistance – Fault Parameters and Database
National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) which rapidly determines the location and size of all destructive earthquakes worldwide, maintaining global seismic database. Mining seismicity, stations, fast moment tensor solutions, catalogs.
National Strong-Motion Program (NSMP) – records each damaging earthquake in the US on the ground and in man-made structures in densely urbanized areas to improve public earthquake safety. Stations, Data Sets and Processing, Borehole data, Research and Publications
Southern California Earthquake Hazards Program at Pasadena, California – Research, Hazards, Preparedness, quake information, helicorders * Northern California Earthquake Hazards Program including Probabilities for the San Francisco Bay Area (62% probability of at least one 6.7 or greater quake causing widespread damage before 2032). Includes California and Nevada sites.
National Geomagnetism Program * Landslides Hazards and Mitigation Strategy, Monitoring, Wildfire-induced Debris Flows, National Landslide Information Center, People and Projects
Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc format makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust.
This DVD-ROM disc is for use in a computer DVD drive. The files can be accessed from the File Explorer in the same way that you open files from a CD-ROM disc; the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM formats are functionally the same, but the DVD has more than six times greater storage capacity. Of course, this disc cannot be "played" in a DVD player connected to a television set. It contains computer-formatted data, not video.
