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

The declarations were made in anticipation of a potentially imminent and record GLOF from Suicide Basin, which sits above the Mendenhall Glacier.

The free maps can be integrated with GPS devices or mobile apps, providing real-time navigation in the field. | Credit: The ...

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

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian region of Papua on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but a monitor said there was no tsunami threat. The epicenter of the quake, which ...

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

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 ...

Whenever a major earthquake strikes, the following question tends to come up: Is that sort of quake possible in the Bay Area?

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 ...

It took about a month for researchers to find the tracker as the snake moved in and out of Key Largo’s labyrinth of caves, and when they did, they found a 12-foot-long, 66-pound female python ...

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