How likely is it that Valdosta would experience an earthquake?\u00c2\u00a0 Not very<\/strong>, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA):<\/p>\n

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Seismic Design Category (SDC) map of the Eastern United States<\/p><\/div>\n

The Valdosta area is in white (SDC level A) on this map, which means we have “very small probability of experiencing damaging earth\u00c2\u00adquake effects.” FEMA<\/a> provides this list of resources about earthquakes<\/a>, including what to do after an earthquake<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The United States Geological Survey<\/a> (USGS) oversees federal research on earthquakes and offers maps of current earthquake activity<\/a> and further information on this week’s earthquake in Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Valdosta is much more likely to experience the effects of a hurricane<\/a>. Visit the current Hurricane exhibit from Odum Library’s Government Documents<\/a> collection, located in the library’s second floor Reference<\/a> area.\u00c2\u00a0 More online resources about hurricanes and other disasters are available in this previous blog entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How likely is it that Valdosta would experience an earthquake?\u00c2\u00a0 Not very, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): The Valdosta area is in white (SDC level A) on this map, which means we have “very small probability of experiencing damaging earth\u00c2\u00adquake effects.” FEMA provides this list of resources about earthquakes, including what to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-documents","category-odum-library","category-reference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}