What can you do with this layer?
Earthquakes are one of the biggest natural disaster risks in some parts of the world. In this exercise you will add the USA Earthquake Risk layer to your map and assess the earthquake risk in several areas.
Find the USA Earthquake Risk layer by selecting “Add” then “Browse Living Atlas Layers.” Next select “Landscape” then “Ecology” and “USA Earthquake Risk.”
Add the layer to your map by clicking “Add layer to map (as layer).”
In the Content window on the left side of the screen, click on the ellipses below the layer name and then select “Show item details.” A new screen should appear in your web browser that describes the dataset in the Description and Dataset Summary sections. If more information about the dataset is desired, users can click on “Link to source metadata” toward the bottom of the page. Answer the question about the dataset.
The vector features for this layer can be used for visualization and analysis
in ArcGIS
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