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Room: Holiday Ballroom 4-6+Corridor

Date: 4/15/2025

Session Time: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (local time)

Tuesday, April 15:
6–7 PM
The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Science to Support Decision-Making,
Presented by Gavin Hayes, U.S. Geological Survey (Golden)
With panel discussion by Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology; Heather DeShon, Southern Methodist University; and Vadim Levin, University of Memphis

Holiday Ballroom 4-6

Earthquakes are a national hazard, with recent analyses indicating that nearly 75% of the U.S. could experience damaging shaking. The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program (EHP) provides authoritative and impartial scientific information that can be successfully applied to reducing earthquake losses and improving resilience in the U.S. and its territories. The Program works under the Congressionally authorized National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program and is a line item in annual USGS Federal Budget appropriation. Success in advancing earthquake risk reduction requires understanding of and working within existing guidelines and environments, while delivering actionable science to support decision-making. Partnerships are critical to support these efforts; the EHP funds the external community to collaborate in accomplishing its monitoring, hazard assessment and research goals. Hayes will discuss the work of the Program within the federal government, the new EHP decadal science strategy, and how partnerships with the external seismological community are critical to achieve an earthquake-ready nation.

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