The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Multi-Hazard Project is improving our resiliency to earthquakes, floods, wildfires, landslides, tsunamis, and coastal erosion in southern California. We are doing this by applying science to community decision making and emergency response. The project will help communities reduce their natural hazard threats by directing new and existing science toward gaping vulnerabilities, improving monitoring, producing innovative products, and assuring you know about and benefit from the results.
Americans are more at risk from natural hazards now than at any other time in our nation’s history. Southern California, in particular, has one of the nation’s highest potentials for extreme catastrophic losses due to fires, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and other natural hazards. Expected losses exceed $3 billion per year. These losses can only be reduced through the good decisions guided by the best information about the hazards, risks and cost of mitigation.
The USGS will work with collaborators to set the direction of the research and to create multi-hazard risk frameworks where communities can apply the results of scientific research to their decision making processes. Partners include state, county, city, and public lands government agencies, public and private utilities, companies with a significant impact and presence in southern California, academic researchers, FEMA, NOAA, and local emergency response agencies.
