" This web site is provided by the United States Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazard Program as part of our effort to reduce earthquake hazard in the United States. We are part of the USGS Geologic Discipline and are the USGS component of the congressionally-established, multi-agency National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). The UGS participates in the NEHRP with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National Science Foundation (NFS). In the 2004 reauthorization of NEHRP by Congress, NIST has been given the lead role to plan and coordinate this national effort to mitigate earthquake losses by developing and applying earth science data and assessments essential for land-use planning, engineering design, and emergency preparedness decisions. " more

" The SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (SSA) is a scientific society devoted to the advancement of earthquake science. Founded in 1906 in San Francisco, the Society now has members throughout the world representing a variety of technical interests: seismologists and other geophysicists, geologists, engineers, insurers, and policy-makers in preparedness and safety. " more

" The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology is a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data. IRIS programs contribute to scholarly research, education, earthquake hazard mitigation, and the verification of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Support for IRIS comes from the National Science Foundation, other federal agencies, universities, and private foundations. " more

" The Global Seismology Laboratory, located on the fifth floor of Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), is a research group in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT. In this group, we conduct basic as well as practical researches that encompass most fields in structural and earthquake seismology. We are also interested in studying the physical and chemical properties of the Earth's interior and understanding the geodynamical processes in which our planet evolves. In pursuing these studies, our group members are able to take advantage of the wide range of research works done by local creative talents through constant interactions with people in the Geodynamics Group, the Planetary Dynamics Group, the Earth Resources Laboratory, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. " ... more

" The Tectonics Special Research Centre was established in 1997, with the mission of discovering the supercontinents of which Australia has been part in the past 3,000 million years.
The Centre is based at The University of Western Australia
With nodes at - Curtin University - University of Texas - Harvard - Yale
The nature of the Centre’s mission requires great breadth of geological and geophysical knowledge, which will be acquired through primary investigation, and by collaboration and synthesis of existing and new knowledge gathered by others. International collaboration is a key part of the Centre's work plan.
The Centre has five objectives, with sets of well-defined goals for each triennium of the Centre's life, which will lead by the end of 2005 to a set of computer-generated global palaeotectonic maps from which the geological evolution of Australia can be understood. " more

" The field of the expertise of the Institute covers the application of modern mathematics to seismology and adjacent Earth Sciences. Taking advantage on traditional interest of Russian "pure" mathematicians to the applied problems, the Institute is built up on the direct involvement of the world-class mathematicians like L.Kantorovich, I.Gelfand, Ya.Sinai and their schools.
The Institute is known for pioneering results in the fields of earthquake prediction, seismic risk, verification of compliance to nuclear test ban treaty, structure of the Earth, exploration of mineral deposits, signal processing, wave propagation, geophysical fluid dynamics, magnetic dynamo. " more

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