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Publication Review

Title: Geological Hazards
Author: FEMA
File: Free Guide, PDF 3.59 MB, 40 pages
Audience: For homeowners, builders and architects.

Review
A guide to understanding the geological hazards to homebuilding associated with landslides, land subsidence and expansive or swelling soils. These problems are much more prevalent than is popularly thought.

Issues covered include:

• introduction
• landslides
  • chapter summary
  • hazard identification
  • risk assessment
  • research, data collection and monitoring activities
  • mitigation approaches
  • recommendations
  • bibliography and references
• land subsidence
  • chapter summary
  • hazard identification
  • risk assessment
  • research, data collection and monitoring activities
  • mitigation approaches
  • recommendations
  • bibliography and references
• expansive soils
  • chapter summary
  • hazard identification
  • risk assessment
  • research, data collection and monitoring activities
  • mitigation approaches
  • recommendations
  • bibliography and references
    

Graphics include:

• photos of dramatic soils failurs
• U.S. map - landslide and debri flow potential
• U.S. map - landslide incidence and susceptibility
• U.S. map - cumulative damage from mining
• U.S. map - cumulative damage from sink holes
• U.S. map - cumulative damage from underground fluid withdrawal
• U.S. map - cumulative damage from hydrocompaction
• U.S map - cumulative damage from drainage of organic soils
• U.S map - clay swelling potential
• chart of estimated annual damgae from land subsidence
• chart of estimated annual soil-related damage costs by building type