A devastating earthquake in China's remote Tibet region on January 7 killed at least 126 people, with the tremor also ...

A team of USGS researchers in Flagstaff are working to develop an all new geologic map of the Grand Canyon region.

President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, because "it's ours." Who owns ...

A light, 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...

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The U.S. Geological Survey is investing $1 million in a new ... Image of U.S. Landslide Inventory website of a map showing U.S. landslides. “The frequency and size of landslides are expected ...

A map from the U.S. Geological Survey finds that there are 222 possible non-native species that had the potential to spread in Georgia and Florida due to storm-related flooding from Hurricane ...

SWEETWATER COUNTY — The Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) has published a new geological bedrock map titled Preliminary Geologic Map of the Firehole Canyon 30’ x 60’ Quadrangle ...

LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, is a remote sensing method that uses light in the form of pulsed lasers ...

Some sections of Northern California's coast are considered vulnerable to tsunamis. Here's where those locations are and how ...

An earthquake map from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows that minor earthquakes hit nine states on Friday morning. California is perhaps the state most known for earthquakes, as the Golden ...