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Geotimes December 2004 Lehr Wallace & Millar	Beating Natural Hazards to the Punch The federal government, along with state and local governments, must better prepare for and help mitigate the costs of natural disasters.
Geotimes June 2003	Geomedia Ten years of mapping Utah...
Geotimes September 2003 Jan Childress	Jim Davis: Lessons from Josiah Whitney Jim Davis stepped down this summer from his position as California's state geologist. Davis describes with relish the experiences of California's first state geologist, Josiah Whitney.
Geotimes October 2005 Jon L. Rau	Teaching Urban Geology From the Bottom Up Middle- and High School-level textbooks do not contain sufficient geological data to illustrate interesting problems and natural hazards that are related to local geological urban settings, thus forcing teachers to do their own research.
Geotimes April 2005 Megan Sever	Dream Homes Slip Away The nature of the hillside -- an unstable ancient landslide deposit deep beneath layers of recent fill material -- and the civil engineering of the home sites in Anaheim, California are sparking debate over why these structures cracked and were demolished.
Geotimes November 2007	Down to Earth With.... David Applegate An interview with David Applegate: historian, geologist, Congressional Science Fellow, former editor of Geotimes, and presently the head of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program.
Geotimes October 2004 Ron Kind	Geologic Mapping for the Future Recognizing the diverse roles mapping plays in society, Congress recently voted to reauthorize the National Geologic Mapping Act.
Geotimes November 2003	Geomedia Book Review: The Fossils of Florissant... Areal mapping applications...
Geotimes April 2004 Naomi Lubick	Geophenomena Predicting landslides... Hot spring pops up in Paso Robles... Dry craters in Bhuj...
Geotimes December 2006 Arthur Lerner-Lam	Don't Prioritize: Mainstream Hazard Reduction Into Economic Development Aid A global effort to reduce natural hazard risks is a dream shared by many, but it cannot play out in a development policy vacuum. Making the explicit link between risk reduction and economic development turns a global effort into an international one.
Geotimes May 2004 Naomi Lubick	New New Madrid Findings New research has moved a historical earthquake off the New Madrid faults, possibly changing the hazard conditions for the region and across the eastern United States.
Geotimes November 2006 Rod Combellick	Building a Natural Gas Pipeline Through Earthquake Country With proposals now being considered to build a natural gas pipeline, it is ever-important to understand the seismic hazards along potential routes, so that the pipeline and its spurs can be properly designed and managed for seismic safety.
Geotimes March 2003 Robert M. Hamilton	Milestones in Earthquake Research This year, the first national program for earthquake research turns 25. More importantly, Congress will consider its reauthorization in the upcoming session. As we look to its future incarnation, it is worth keeping in mind what led to the program in the first place.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Natural Hazards News Stories of 2006 Looking Into Landslides... Getting Ready for the Rumble... Levee Concerns Abound... Spreading Wildfire... etc.
Geotimes June 2003 Chan et al.	Geology for the Record Deltas, sandbars, shoreline deposits, and other geological relics contain valuable information about Utah's changing climate over the past thousands of years. But that information could be lost to urban growth and the need for resources unless people understand their geologic value.
Geotimes February 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Susan Cannon: Watching for Flowing Mud This USGS geomorphologist is working both on mapping and developing a landslide warning system for wildfire-stripped regions that have become susceptible to catastrophic debris flows.
Geotimes September 2004	Geomedia Earthquakes, Climate Change and Reel Disasters... Geotimes on the Set... Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country... Mapping Mining Impacts in Missouri...
Geotimes May 2005 David Applegate	Lessons From Sumatra In the months following the December 26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists and their colleagues around the world have been working hard to learn from the tragedy so that such loss of life does not happen again.
Geotimes April 2003 Randall Orndorff	Mapping Colorado Currently, only 24 percent of Colorado's spectacular geology has been mapped at the fine scale of 1:24,000. At the same time, the state hosts many geologic hazards.
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick	Super-Size Quake California fell into the sea during a television miniseries aired by NBC. In addition to the other faulty geologic premises of the melodrama, one elemental error is the size of the earthquake that spawned the miniseries' disasters.
Geotimes June 2004 Fred Schwab	Geologic Assessment: Alan Greenspan or Pete Rose? In preparing for geological hazards and natural disasters, is it better to take the cautious approach or throw caution to the wind?
Geotimes March 2005 Susan E. Hough	Earthquakes: Predicting the Unpredictable? Seismologists are quite good at identifying where large earthquakes are likely to occur on time scales of several decades to centuries, but still unable to identify regions where earthquakes will happen tomorrow, next week, or even within the next few years.
Science News January 13, 2007	Science Safari: Natural Hazards The U.S. Geological Survey has launched a new Web site about the threat of natural disasters.
Popular Mechanics May 13, 2008 Erik Sofge	3 Frontiers in Earthquake Tech to Aid China--and Help the U.S. Can a network of GPS sensors store enough data online to scout the Bay Area's looming quake? And could the rig work in the Chinese countryside?
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Shakes East Africa A magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook the Lake Tanganyika region in Africa today.
Geotimes February 2004 Naomi Lubick	Triggering Tsunamis A controversy over whether an earthquake or an underwater landslide generated the 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami rekindled interest in such events; it also drew geologists into a field that had been dominated by modelers and seismologists.
Geotimes December 2005 David Applegate	A Year of Living Dangerously Recent destructive events are reminders of our society's growing vulnerability to natural disasters as more people move into harm's way. Scientists seeking to understand the underlying geologic systems have an obligation to learn more.
Geotimes May 2004	Geomedia Chasing Lava: A Geologist’s Adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory... Frozen Wonders... Maps: Digital Mapping for Washington State...
Geotimes December 2003 Hatheway et al.	Applied Geology in Service of the Public Welfare Engineering geologists play a crucial role in providing geological information to the public.
Geotimes October 2003 Josh Chamot	Earthquake warning tools The ability to forecast a seismic event has been an elusive goal, but researchers are accepting the challenge and are using recent advances in seismic and computational technology to attempt to decipher Earth's subtle clues.
Geotimes November 2003 Megan Sever	Remote mapping in disaster zones Researchers recently published findings that they say prove that synthetic aperture radar (SAR) polarimetry can do a better job of assessing disaster damage than current optical remote sensing technologies, such as Landsat.
Geotimes August 2006 Wang & Burns	Oregon's Recipe for Mitigating Earthquakes Oregon's recent development of new earthquake safety policies, which include a long-term state-funded grant program to help rehabilitate high-risk public schools and emergency facilities, serves as a good case study for addressing seismic hazards on a community level.
Geotimes October 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Strong Earthquake Shakes up Hawaii A magnitude-6.7 earthquake rumbled through the island chain of Hawaii, originating near Hawaii island, known as the "Big Island," according to the USGS. An aftershock with a magnitude of 6.0 followed seven minutes later.
Geotimes April 2006	This Month in History... April 18, 1906: The Great Earthquake Destroys San Francisco Those few individuals who were involved in the relatively new science of seismology quickly journeyed to San Francisco that long ago April to see for themselves the effects of the disaster, to record their observations in scientific terms, and to hypothesize on its causes.
Geotimes July 2007	Geophysicist Ross Stein Like all who study earthquakes, Ross Stein doesn't want to just understand them - he wants to anticipate them.
Insurance & Technology January 21, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell	Catastrophe Risk Models Show January 12 Haiti Quake Presages Future Caribbean Earthquakes This time the insurance industry responded with charity, but the next Caribbean earthquake could require a massive claims response, given the region's seismic hazard.
Geotimes March 2004 Mark Zoback	Earthquake Prediction and the Developing World The toll from the Iranian earthquake in December -- at least 30,000 dead and an estimated 40,000 homeless in just a few seconds -- is difficult to comprehend. Unfortunately, we can predict with reasonable certainty that sometime in the next few years, in a country with buildings unprepared to withstand disaster, a catastrophic quake will happen again
Geotimes March 2007 Carolyn Gramling	New Madrid Fault Dying? A series of devastating earthquakes that altered the course of the Mississippi River in the early 19th century may have been among the last gasps of an old, dying fault system, a controversial new study suggests.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Jostles Iran After an evening of precursory tremors, a magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck western Iran today.
Geotimes September 2005 Naomi Lubick	Repositioning Tokyo's Fault Seismologists now think Tokyo's fault sits closer to Earth's surface than previously thought. If the fault is indeed shallower, the new assessment has the potential to revise the projected hazards Tokyo may face in the future.
Geotimes July 2007 Susan Hough	Sizing up Earthquake Damage: Differing Points of View Journalists and scientists may share interest in catastrophic events, but they have very different missions.
Geotimes April 2004 Charles Groat	A Celebration of 125 Years In the 125 years since its creation, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has provided the scientific information needed to make important decisions and safeguard society.
Geotimes March 2004 E-an Zen	The Marriage of Geology and Philosophy This slim volume deals with the public role of earth science in contemporary society. What it has to say should concern not only public-minded earth scientists and those engaged in policy-making, but those who care about the relations between science and the humanities
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Magnitude-8.7 Earthquake Hits Sumatra, Small Tsunami Wave Detected An earthquake that was quite close the site of December's catastrophic quake has prompted warning bulletins from NOAA's Pacific Tsunami Warning system suggesting the evacuation of coastlines within 1,000 kilometers of the epicenter.
Scientific American January 2006 David Appell	Easing Jitters When Buildings Rumble After natural disasters, an anxious public wants to see that someone understands the catastrophe. For California quakes, seismologist Lucy Jones does the job.
IDB America March 2002 Charo Quesada	An improbable city Cursed by geography, the Colombian city of Manizales has become a world leader in disaster prevention and planning...
Geotimes September 2004 Dan Byers	Budget Procrastination The author shares his own positive experience working on reauthorization of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program with Congressman Nick Smith.
Popular Mechanics July 30, 2008 Erik Sofge	L.A. Quake Was Minor, but Is America Ready for the Big One? The quake preparedness of Los Angeles was put to the test yesterday, but only barely.
Geotimes January 2006 Naomi Lubick	Seismic Warnings Researchers suggest that the first few seconds of an earthquake have the potential to reveal the final size that an earthquake will grow to be -- with implications for how earthquakes physically unfold.
Geotimes September 2007	Down to Earth With...Seismologist Brian Tucker An interview with the seismologist about his nonprofit organization GeoHazards, which seeks to help reduce or prevent destruction from natural hazards in developing countries.