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An Open Repository of Earthquake-Triggered Ground-Failure Inventories

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Publication Date
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2022-10-25

Citation

Schmitt, R.G., Tanyas, H., Nowicki Jessee, M.A., Zhu, J., Biegel, K.M., Allstadt, K.E., Jibson, R.W., Thompson, E.M., van Westen, C.J., Sato, H.P., Wald, D.J., Godt, J.W., Gorum, T,. Xu, C., Rathje, E.M., Knudsen, K.L., 2017, An Open Repository of Earthquake-Triggered Ground-Failure Inventories (ver 4.0, October 2022), U.S. Geological Survey data release collection, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7H70DB4

Summary

Earthquake-triggered ground-failure, such as landsliding and liquefaction, can contribute significantly to losses, but our current ability to accurately include them in earthquake hazard analyses is limited. The development of robust and transportable models requires access to numerous inventories of ground failure triggered by earthquakes that span a broad range of terrains, shaking characteristics, and climates. We present an openly accessible, centralized earthquake-triggered ground-failure inventory repository in the form of a ScienceBase Community to provide open access to these data, and help accelerate progress. The Community hosts digital inventories created by both USGS and non-USGS authors. We present the original digital [...]

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Contacts

Point of Contact :
gs-haz_groundfailure@usgs.gov, Robert Schmitt, Kate E Allstadt
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Hazards Science Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
Originator :
Robert G Schmitt, Hakan Tanyas, Anna Nowicki Jessee, Jing Zhu, Katherine M Biegel, Kate E Allstadt, Randall W Jibson, Eric M Thompson, Cees J van Westen, Hiroshi Sato, David J Wald, Jonathan W Godt, Tolga Gorum, Chong Xu
USGS Mission Area :
Natural Hazards
SDC Data Owner :
Earthquake Hazards Program

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GFDB_V4_shapefiles.zip
“Ground Failure Database Version 4.0 Shapefiles” 		241.65 MB application/zip
ground-failure inventory metadata form.pdf
“Ground-failure inventory metadata form ” 		960.57 KB application/pdf
Ground_Failure_Database_v4.gdb.zip
“Ground Failure Database Version 4.0 ESRI Geodatabase & Metadata Files” 		131.99 MB application/zip
ground_failure_events_V4.csv
“Summary of Events for Version 4.0” 		67.22 KB text/csv
Inventory_methods_V4.csv
“Ground-Failure Methods Summary” 		72.56 KB text/csv
README.txt
“Readme File” 		933 Bytes text/plain
summary_metadata_GFDB_V4.xml
“Summary Metadata for Version 4.0”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		9.82 KB application/fgdc+xml
summary_of_changes_v4.txt
“Summary of Changes Log” 		5.65 KB text/plain

Purpose

The goal of this work is to help accelerate research progress by making it easier for the research community to access these datasets. When selecting data for a given research objective, researchers need to know the methodologies used to create the inventories and the limitations of the datasets. To address this need, we also report details from the original authors regarding mapping methodologies and levels of completeness. We have chosen to structure the collection of inventories as a ScienceBase Community that can be updated regularly as new inventories are made available. The procedures and policies described in the accompany U.S. Geological Survey data series report, linked below, would be applied to new inventories prior to inclusion.

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