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| USGS
Science Helps Build Safer
Communities |
SCIENCE
FOR
A SAFER, STRONGER AMERICA
In
the United States each
year, natural hazards
cause hundreds of deaths
and cost tens of billions
of dollars in disaster
aid, disruption of commerce,
and destruction of homes
and critical infrastructure.
This series of fact sheets
will
educate
citizens, emergency managers,
and lawmakers on seven
natural hazards facing
the Nation -- earthquakes,
floods, hurricanes, landslides,
tsunamis, volcanoes,
and wildfires -- and show
how USGS science helps
mitigate disasters and
build resilient communities.
