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

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

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

On Tuesday morning, a county in Tibet experienced one of its strongest earthquakes in years. According to official figures, at least 126 people were killed and 188 others injured, and rescue efforts ...

A magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck in Monterey County on Wednesday night. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the temblor at 9 ...

Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans, but observing what happens before and after its potential eruption could help ...

In an almost offhand digression Tuesday, president-elect Donald Trump idly mentioned he was going to change the name of the ...

President-elect Donald Trump suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico after the U.S. But can he really do that? Here's how place ...

In the mid-1800s, the U.S. Department of the Interior began the “great surveys” to map the vast, uncharted land of the West, ...

( NewsNation) — The Los Angeles wildfires are being fueled by what the National Weather Service said could be the strongest ...

The exact cause of each fire is still under investigation, but officials have largely blamed the extreme drought conditions, ...