Agency Information Collection Activities: Did You Feel It? Earthquake Questionnaire, 69039-69040 [2022-25005]

Agencies

• Geological Survey
• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 221 (Thursday, November 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69039-69040]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected] 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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