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Shapefiles on this page: U.S. Tornadoes 1950-2008, U.S. Dams and Risk, U.S. Earthquakes 1568 - 2004, Hurricanes Making Landfall in U.S., World Volcanoes
U.S. Tornadoes ArcGIS Shapefiles The United States Tornado Touchdown Points 1950-2008 map layer includes tornado touchdown points for tornadoes that occurred in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Descriptive information includes the latitude and longitude of the touchdown and lift-off points, the number of fatalities or injuries, an estimate of damage costs, and the classification of the storm on the Fujita Tornado Damage Scale ... Download
U.S. Dams ArcGIS Shapefile This map layer portrays major dams of the United States, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The map layer was created by extracting dams 50 feet or more in height, or with a normal storage capacity of 5,000 acre-feet or more, or with a maximum storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet or more, from the 79,777 dams in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams. Includes dam name, location, type, size and associate risk level ... Download
Significant United States Earthquakes 1568 - 2004 The National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) manages, disseminates, and archives earthquake information. The NEIC is part of the Earthquake Hazards Program at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The NEIC focuses its efforts on mitigating the risks of earthquakes to mankind. Toward this goal, the NEIC works to determine the location and size of all destructive earthquakes, pursues an active earthquake research program, and collects and provides an extensive earthquake database that serves as a solid foundation for scientific research to scientists and to the public ... Download
Hurricanes Making Landfall in U.S. This Historical North Atlantic Hurricane Tracks file of major storms with landfall in the United States contains the six-hourly (0000, 0600, 1200, 1800 UTC) center locations and intensities for all northern Atlantic major storms from 1851 through 2004. Major storms are those that made landfall in the United States and that were classified on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale as Category 3, 4, or 5 at the time of landfall ... Download
Volcano ArcGIS Shapefile - The large and growing Volcanoes of the World database developed by the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution contains the geographic, historical, and volcanological characteristics of nearly 3,000 active volcanoes around the world ... Download
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Shapefiles on this page: U.S. Dams and Risk, U.S. Earthquakes 1568 - 2004, Hurricanes Making Landfall in U.S., World Volcanoes
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