A tiny mountain town in North Carolina has seen three earthquakes over four days, and it appears to be part of a trend in ...

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a disaster declaration Sunday in response to an “imminent threat of catastrophic flooding" ...

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian region of Papua on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but a ...

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Before the end of the year, the US Geological Survey will publish a revised critical minerals list, which will shape defense ...

A second earthquake has rocked New Jersey just days after a 3.0-magnitude quake shook the area on Saturday, according to the ...

A preliminary 3.5-magnitude earthquake rattled Rialto on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The 1970s was the last time the USGS did this kind of mapping in Massachusetts, said Shah. A big difference, she said, is today’s data is high resolution imagery that wasn't available in the 1970s.

USGS "Our conclusions are that the likely trigger for this was permafrost degradation due to warming temperatures" which, accompanied by a higher influx of water from spring snowmelt, weakened the ...

A small earthquake rattled the New York metropolitan area Saturday night. The US Geological Survey said the tremor had a ...

USGS excels at this sort of work: Its Bee Lab inventories all the nation’s native bees; the Bird Banding Lab and Breeding Bird Survey do much the same for birds, and their cutting-edge ...

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian region of Papua on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but a ...