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

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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Multiple earthquakes shook Southern California hours after a tremor was felt on the East Coast on Aug. 5, according to data from the U.S. Geological Survey. One quake hit Rialto, California, in the ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The U.S. Geological Survey recently discovered the largest continuous oil and gas deposit ever found in the United States, officials said Tuesday. The agency announced that the Wolfcamp shale ...

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