The Menlo Park property, vacated in January when the USGS completed its relocation to Moffett Field, was one of 12 "high ...

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

Multiple earthquakes shook Southern California hours after a tremor was felt on the East Coast on Aug. 5, according to data from the U.S. Geological Survey. One quake hit Rialto, California, in the ...

A second earthquake has rocked New Jersey just days after a 3.0-magnitude quake shook the area on Saturday, according to the ...

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

The quake was felt from greater Los Angeles south to San Diego and east to the Palm Springs desert region, according to the USGS community reporting page. That 4.6-magnitude quake caused no ...

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

The U.S. Geological Survey recently discovered the largest continuous oil and gas deposit ever found in the United States, officials said Tuesday. The agency announced that the Wolfcamp shale ...

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 ...

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 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 ...