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The West Hills of Portland, in the southern Tualatin Mountains, trend northwest along the west side of Portland, Oregon. These silt-mantled mountains receive significant wet-season precipitation and are prone to sliding during wet conditions, occasionally resulting in significant property damage or casualties. In an effort to develop a baseline for interpretive analysis of the groundwater response to rainfall, an automated monitoring system was installed in 2006 to measure rainfall, pore-water pressure, soil suction, soil-water potential, and volumetric water content at 15-minute intervals. The data show a cyclical pattern of groundwater and moisture content levels—wet from October to May and dry between June and...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: GHSC,
Geologic Hazards Science Center,
Hydrogeology,
LHP,
Landslide Hazards Program, All tags...
Multnomah County,
Portland, OR,
Soil Sciences,
Tualatin Mountains,
USGS,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
West Hills of Portland,
earth science,
groundwater,
hazard,
hydrologic monitoring,
landslide,
rainfall,
soil suction, Fewer tags
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This data release includes time-series data from a monitoring site located in a small drainage basin in the Arroyo Seco watershed in Los Angeles County, CA, USA (N3788964 E389956, UTM Zone 11, NAD83). The site was established after the 2009 Station Fire and recorded a series debris flows in the first winter after the fire. The data include three types of time-series: (1) 1-minute time series of rainfall, soil water content, channel bed pore pressure and temperature, and flow stage recorded by radar and laser distance meters (ArroyoSecoContinuous.csv); (2) 10-Hz time series of flow stage recorded by the laser distance meter during rain storms (ArroyoSecoStormLaser.csv), and (3) 2-second time series of rainfall and...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Arroyo Seco, California,
GHSC,
Geologic Hazards Science Center,
Landslides Hazards Program,
Los Angeles County, California, All tags...
USGS,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
debris flow,
drainage basin,
earth science,
fire,
geophysics,
heterogeneous infiltration capacity,
infiltration capacity,
landslide,
landslide hazard,
rainfall,
seismology,
soil water content,
wildfire, Fewer tags
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This dataset represents thermoluminescence (TL) data that was obtained after a series of experiments to investigate how TL techniques can indicate the depth of soil heating. This project was attempted to ultimately predict changes in erosion properties in burned areas subject to debris flow hazards. The soil samples were obtained from an area burned by the Silverado wildfire (September 12 to 20, 2014). The dataset includes 3 soil samples and 1 control sample. The three burned soil samples were obtained throughout the burned watershed, and the control sample was taken in an unburned area. These will be referred to as sample 3, sample 7, sample 10, and control 1. All soil was obtained on April 23, 2015. The sample...
Types: Citation;
Tags: GHSC,
Geologic Hazards Science Center,
LHP,
Landslide Hazards Program,
Risø TL/OSL Reader, All tags...
Silverado wildfire,
Silverado, CA,
USGS,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
burned watershed,
earth science,
landslide hazard,
soil heating,
thermoluminescence,
wildfire,
wildfire hazard, Fewer tags
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On January 15, 1997, a landslide of approximately 100,000-m3 from a coastal bluff swept five cars of a freight train into Puget Sound at Woodway, Washington, USA, 25 km north of downtown Seattle. The landslide resulted from failure of a sequence of dense sands and hard silts of glacial and non-glacial origin, including hard, jointed clayey silt that rarely fails in natural slopes. Joints controlled ground-water seepage through the silt and break-up of the landslide mass. During September of 1997, the U.S. Geological Survey began measuring rainfall, ground-water pressures, and ground movement at the bluff where the landslide occurred. The original sensor array comprised a tipping-bucket rain gauge, four extensometers...
Types: Citation;
Tags: 1997,
GHSC,
Geologic Hazards Science Center,
LHP,
Landslide Hazards Program, All tags...
Snohomish County, Washington,
USGS,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Woodway landslide,
geotechnical engineering,
landslide,
landslide hazard, Fewer tags
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The ANSS Backbone Network is based on the core of the original US National Seismic Network. In partnership with the National Science Foundation, the USGS worked with the Earthscope program (through the USArray project and IRIS) in 2004-2006 to upgrade and install new backbone stations. This effort was completed in September 2006, with 15 new stations installed and 20 existing stations upgraded. Today, the ANSS Backbone consists of nearly 100 stations in the United States, many of them contributed by partner networks and organizations.
Types: Citation;
Tags: ANSS,
Advanced National Seismic System,
Earthquake Hazards Program,
GHSC,
Geologic Hazards Science Center, All tags...
USGS,
United States,
accelerometer,
earth science,
earthquake hazard,
emergency response,
geophysics,
real time monitoring,
seismic hazard,
seismology,
seismometer,
situational awareness,
strong motion sensor,
tectonophysics, Fewer tags
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