The quake came during a cluster that saw over a dozen other earthquakes reported over a 24-hour period, the USGS map shows.

This past summer, the U.S. Geological Survey began large-scale low-level airplane flights over the Upper Peninsula and ...

FEMA officials inspect a construction vehicle that went off the road on a section that had just been cleared of 15 feet of dirt from a landslide in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, on Feb. 13, 2018. (FEMA/K ...

Damage prediction, with red as the most severe, if there was a magnitude 7.0 quake along California's Hayward Fault. (USGS map) The USGS, along with approximately 60 partners, released a new fact ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has published a new set of maps to observe the destruction caused by Hawaii’s Volcano Kilauea. The government agency continues to publish maps at a fast cadence as they ...

A shake alert went out over the U.S. Geological Survey's early warning system on Dec. 4, warning that a 5.9 earthquake near Carson City in western Nevada could produce heavy shaking in the region. But ...

Nearly all of California has a more than 95% chance of a damaging earthquake in the next century, according to a new United States Geological Survey map. The new USGS National Seismic Hazard Model ...

A first-ever study from the U.S. Geological Survey found roughly 40 percent of groundwater contains lithium above EPA’s health reference level. The U.S. Geological Survey mapped for the first time ...

USGS deleted a false alert that wrongly reported a 5.9 Nevada quake, saying no earthquake occurred and the cause of the error ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The German mining engineer Georgius Agricola (1494-1555) ...

Louisiana's map is set to shrink again next year as federal officials recognize the ongoing effects of sea level rise on the ...