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Your MoneyTransparency & AccountabilityMore earthquake warnings, in more places and more languages — with $83.4 million a year for this work through 2030.
Your Money
The Geological Survey would grow the warning network into more high-risk places. It would also work to spot quakes sooner. That buys more seconds before the shaking starts.
Alerts would go out in the languages most spoken where a quake hits. The agency would work with the FCC, which oversees TV and radio, to send warnings fast.
After a big quake, the agency would put out forecasts for aftershocks. It would do so when it judges that useful. The current law does not list this duty.
A quake at sea can send a tsunami toward shore. The Geological Survey would share data and resources with the NOAA ocean agency and FEMA. The stated aim is a timely response.
Transparency & Accountability
The program's hazard maps would have to show tsunami risk. It would work that out with the national tsunami program. The maps would also cover other hazards that come with quakes.
Today the law tells the program to publish these maps. The bill adds a duty to maintain them, so what the public sees stays current.
The bill sets funding levels only through budget year 2030. After that, Congress would have to act again for this earthquake work to keep its approved funding.
More about this bill
If you live in earthquake country, you would get more warning before the ground moves. The U.S. Geological Survey would have to grow the early warning system into more high-risk areas. Alerts would go out in the main languages spoken where a quake hits. The agency would also start issuing aftershock forecasts after big earthquakes. Public earthquake hazard maps would have to show tsunami risk and other related dangers. Those maps must be kept up to date, not just published once. The bill approves about $83.4 million a year for this earthquake work from 2026 through 2030. At least $30 million a year would go to finishing the Advanced National Seismic System. That is the nationwide network of earthquake monitoring stations. Tribal governments would join states and cities as partners across the program.
Congressional Summary
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 the activities of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). It also expands certain USGS activities under NEHRP relating to earthquake warnings and mapping and expands other NEHRP activities.NEHRP is a coordinated earthquake hazards reduction program administered by four federal agencies: the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USGS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the National Science Foundation. Under NEHRP, USGS is responsible for monitoring and early warnings (including operating the Advanced National Seismic System, a nationwide network of seismic stations), hazard assessments and mapping, and research regarding earthquakes. The bill reauthorizes such USGS activities through FY2030.Additionally, the bill requires USGS to coordinate with the Federal Communications Commission to ensure alerts and early warnings are broadcast as rapidly as possible for maximum warning time, expand the early warning system to additional high-risk areas,issue forecasts for aftershocks following significant earthquakes, andinclude tsunamis and other hazards associated with earthquakes in seismic hazard maps.Also, NEHRP activities to develop building codes and standards must include recovery objectives addressing post-earthquake occupancy and functionality of infrastructure.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Reported to House
- Action Date
- 2026-01-12
- Date Added
- 2026-06-05
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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