Notice2022-25005
Agency Information Collection Activities: Did You Feel It? Earthquake Questionnaire
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Published
November 17, 2022
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentGeological Survey
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is proposing to renew an information collection with revisions.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 221 (Thursday, November 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69039-69040]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25005]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[GX.23.ZQ00.G402A.00; OMB Control Number 1028-0048]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Did You Feel It?
Earthquake Questionnaire
AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Information Collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA),
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is proposing to renew an information
collection with revisions.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
January 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on this information collection request
(ICR) by mail to U.S. Geological Survey, Information Collections
Officer, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 159, Reston, VA 20192; or by
email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f09783dd999e969faf939f9c9c959384999f9e83b085839783de979f86"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9ff8ecb2f6f1f9f0c0fcf0f3f3fafcebf6f0f1ecdfeaecf8ecb1f8f0e9">[email protected]</span></a>. Please reference OMB Control
Number 1028-0048 in the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information
about this ICR, contact Sara McBride by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2251494f4140504b464762575145510c454d54"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3f4c54525c5d4d565b5a7f4a4c584c11585049">[email protected]</span></a> or
by telephone at 650-750-5270. Individuals in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial
711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay
services. Individuals outside the United States should use the relay
services offered within their country to make international calls to
the point-of-contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the PRA and 5 CFR
1320.8(d)(1), all information collections require approval. We may not
conduct or sponsor, nor are you required to respond to, a collection of
information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we invite the public and other Federal agencies to comment on
new, proposed, revised, and continuing collections of information. This
helps us assess the impact of our information collection requirements
and minimize the public's reporting burden. It also helps the public
understand our information collection requirements and provide the
requested data in the desired format.
We are especially interested in public comment addressing the
following:
(1) Whether or not the collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including
whether or not the information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this collection
of information, including the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
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(3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(4) How the agency might minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of response.
Comments you submit in response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other personally identifiable information
(PII) in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--
including your PII--may be made publicly available at any time. While
you can ask us in your comment to withhold your PII from public review,
we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Abstract: The USGS is required to collect, evaluate, publish, and
distribute information concerning earthquakes. Respondents have an
opportunity to voluntarily supply information concerning the effects of
shaking from an earthquake--on themselves, buildings, other man-made
structures--as well as on ground effects such as faulting or
landslides. Respondents' observations are interpreted in terms of
numbers that measure the strength of shaking, and the resulting numbers
are displayed on maps that are viewable from USGS earthquake websites.
Observations are submitted via the Felt Report questionnaire accessed
from the USGS ``Did You Feel It?'' (DYFI) earthquake web pages and may
be submitted via computer or mobile phone. Respondents are asked to
provide information on the location to which the report pertains. The
locations may, at the respondent's option, be given imprecisely (city-
name or postal Zip Code) or precisely (street address, geographic
coordinates, or current location determined by the user's mobile
phone). Low resolution maps of shaking based on both precise and
imprecise observations are published for all earthquakes for which
observations are submitted. For earthquakes felt by many respondents,
the observations that are associated with more precise locations are
used in the preparation of higher resolution maps of earthquake
shaking.
Additional questions will be added to the DYFI survey, specifically
for people who received an alert via the ShakeAlert System (the
earthquake early-warning system for the West Coast of the U.S., managed
by the USGS) or any earthquake early warning system globally so they
can report their experiences to us quickly, in combination with their
experiences of the earthquake itself from the DYFI form. This combined
data set can tell us much about how the ShakeAlert system operates,
when people receive alerts, how they receive them, and what they did
once they received them. This is critical information for us to learn
about the efficacy of earthquake early-warning systems and make
improvements to the ShakeAlert system. Note that only people who
receive alerts and indicate that they have will be able to answer the
earthquake early-warning questions.
Title of Collection: Did You Feel It? Earthquake Questionnaire.
OMB Control Number: 1028-0048.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Revision of currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: individuals/households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 300,000.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 300,000.
Estimated Completion Time per Response: 8 minutes.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 40,000.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion, after an earthquake.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost 0.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, nor is a person required to
respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently
valid OMB control number.
The authority for this action is the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq).
Shane Detweiler,
Assistant Earthquake Science Center Director, USGS.
[FR Doc. 2022-25005 Filed 11-16-22; 8:45 am]
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