A minor, 3.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey ...

Geologic maps don’t make headlines. You probably haven’t seen one unless you work in energy, construction, or science. Yet, over the past century, these documents have quietly shaped the way ...

D has been used as a pesticide since the 1940s, and gained notoriety as a component of Agent Orange, used by U.S. forces in ...

Hundreds of small earthquakes were detected at Mount Rainier on Tuesday in the largest such swarm at the active stratovolcano ...

How would you go about identifying usable land that suits your building tastes? [Scott Sexton] was specifically, looking for ...

Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington recorded more than 400 minor earthquakes beneath ...

The flights, happening across much of New England, will image geology as part of a national effort to modernize the region's geological maps.

Google adds Gulf of America to its maps but scrubbed Pride from its calendar “Gulf of America” is now officially on a U.S. database of geographic names after President Donald Trump issued an ...

Bernard Hubbard didn’t set out to map minerals. As a geology PhD student at UB, he used satellite and airborne instruments to study volcanoes from above. Later, as a research geologist with the United ...

A new map showing the risk of landslides nationwide is based on research from a University of Cincinnati professor. The US Geologic Survey (USGS) map published last week uses a database created by ...