Explore Usgs through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Usgs meaning
Initialism of United States Geological Survey.
Using Usgs
- The main meaning on this page is: Initialism of United States Geological Survey.
- In the example corpus, usgs often appears in combinations such as: the usgs, usgs hawaiian, survey usgs.
Context around Usgs
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Usgs
- In this selection, "usgs" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, survey, kern, nadeau, hvo, personnel and scientist stand out and add context to how "usgs" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include biologist with usgs and christoph kern usgs dr patricia. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "usgs" sits close to words such as acquittal, alfa and ambani, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with usgs
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
USGS photo by M. Warren. (5 words)
Inset of the latest Kīlauea summit thermal map by USGS. (10 words)
A map on the USGS website indicates seven earthquakes in the area. (12 words)
The USGS study joins a body of research suggesting that between two-thirds of the nation’s drinking water contains at least one of these chemicals, meaning that most of us are drinking them. (34 words)
The Office of the Inspector General made recommendations to the USGS about preventing future malware infections, and a spokesperson for the IG’s office said the employee no longer works at USGS. (32 words)
Stephen Peters, the head of the USGS's Afghanistan Minerals Project, said that he was unaware of USGS involvement in any new surveying for minerals in Afghanistan in the past two years. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
The SO2 camera installation team for Kīlauea volcano (left to right: Dr Christoph Kern (USGS), Dr Patricia Nadeau (USGS), Dr Tom Pering (University of Sheffield)).
The Office of the Inspector General made recommendations to the USGS about preventing future malware infections, and a spokesperson for the IG’s office said the employee no longer works at USGS.
USGS personnel dropped the residents off in a safe area and then picked up the USGS scientist and went on to complete their observation overflight.
Stephen Peters, the head of the USGS's Afghanistan Minerals Project, said that he was unaware of USGS involvement in any new surveying for minerals in Afghanistan in the past two years.
A map on the USGS website indicates seven earthquakes in the area.
An aftershock measuring 4.9 in magnitude followed the earthquake about 20 minutes later, said the USGS.
Inset of the latest Kīlauea summit thermal map by USGS.
The alert level change was warranted because no infrastructure is threatened by the eruption, and the initial high lava effusion rates are declining, the USGS says.
The annual survey will wrap up on Monday and a final peer-reviewed population estimate won't be ready for some time, said Dan Yule, a biologist with USGS.
The quake's epicentre was at sea southwest of Padangsidempuan city in northern Sumatra at a depth of 84 kilometres, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported.
There were no reports of anyone feeling the quake on the USGS site.
The strongest earthquake–with a 6.3 magnitude according to the USGS–was also felt in the neighboring countries of Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory cameras a glow coming from the volcano in the early morning hours.
The USGS study joins a body of research suggesting that between two-thirds of the nation’s drinking water contains at least one of these chemicals, meaning that most of us are drinking them.
This current state of affairs could change if subsequent prospecting turns up “indicated deposits” which USGS defines as the most reliable method of reporting commercially recoverable uranium bearing ore.
This detail he included in a 250-page report for the USGS that reads like a manual on how to live and perform science in the far north.
This story will be updated with the latest USGS HVO update when it is published.
USGS: “Graph of tilting at Uēkahuna bluff—at the summit of Kīlauea—in a direction toward and away from Halemʻaumʻau, collected by a water tube tiltmeter (black) and an electronic tiltmeter (grey).
USGS HVO may conduct additional flight operations over Kīlauea and Mauna Loa to assess volcanic activity and maintain instrumentation.
USGS photo by M. Warren.
Common combinations with usgs
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: