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Past Flood Events | 2012 | Hurricane Sandy

USGS scientists, engineers, and technicians worked along the Atlantic Coast in response to Hurricane Sandy, deploying and maintaining storm tide sensors real-time streamgages in anticipation of Sandy's arrival. The USGS, in concert with our partners, is providing scientific assessments of the challenges wrought by Sandy.

USGS Open File Report: Monitoring Storm Tide and Flooding from Hurricane Sandy Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, October 2012: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) deployed a temporary monitoring network of water-level and barometric pressure sensors at 224 locations along the Atlantic coast from Virginia to Maine to continuously record the timing, areal extent, and magnitude of hurricane storm tide and coastal flooding generated by Hurricane Sandy. These records were greatly supplemented by an extensive post-flood high-water mark (HWM) flagging and surveying campaign from November to December 2012 involving more than 950 HWMs. Both efforts were undertaken as part of a coordinated federal emergency response as outlined by the Stafford Act under a directed mission assignment by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Tools and Information:

• Storm Tide Mapper - Get real-time map-based info from USGS storm tide sensors. Brought to you by Wisconsin Internet Mapping.

• List of affected streamgages in the USGS real-time network monitoring Hurricane Sandy.

• USGS Water-Quality Sampling after Hurricane Sandy

• NOAA GOES Satellite Imagery for hurricane tracking

• OnTheMap for Emergency Management - US Census Bureau reports on the workforce and population for current natural hazard and emergency related events.

• National Hurricane Center - National Weather Service web page for Tropical Storm and Hurricane activity

• Emergency Response Imagery from the National Geodetic Survey

USGS Activities in the News:

• Search for the High Mark - Wall Street Journal article describing efforts of the USGS to track Sandy's flood levels.

• Superstorm Snapshot - Discovery Channel-Canada discusses the causes of Hurricane Sandy

• USGS Science Features, October 29, 2012: USGS Responds to Hurricane Sandy

• USGS Science Features, October 29, 2012: USGS Issues Landslide Alert for Hurricane Sandy

• USGS sensors track Hurricane Sandy's storm surge

• St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, October 29, 2012: Coastal Change Hazards: Hurricanes and Extreme Storms: Hurricane Sandy

• Huffington Post, October 29, 2012: Hurricane Sandy Resources