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• Environmental Resource Management
• Phase I Environmental Site Assessments
• Groundwater Hydrology
• Environmental Compliance
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• Geological and Geotechnical Services
• Seismic Hazard Assessment

Seismic Hazard Assessment

Lahontan GeoScience, Inc. (LGS) specializes in the integration of geological and seismological data to assess earthquake-related hazards such as strong ground shaking and surface rupture of faults. LGS technical staff have conducted studies of earthquakes in the tectonically active western United States and Mexico, South America, West Africa and Central Asia. 

The LGS team has expertise in the following areas:

• Development of regional seismotectonic models
• Geological fault evaluation reports
• Earthquake monitoring and seismic network operation
• Earthquake location and analysis of seismic activity
• Seismic source characterization
• Deterministic seismic hazard analysis
• Probabilistic seismic hazard assesment (PSHA)
• Site-specific seismic response evaluation

Please see our project experience in Seismic Hazard Assessment.

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