Officials at the United States Geological Survey have tracked over 300 earthquakes beneath Washington State's Mt Rainier from ...

NASA and USGS are mapping critical minerals in the American West using airborne sensors to help reduce U.S. reliance on ...

I have always loved maps. My favorite books as a child featured maps. My first forays into backpacking introduced me to getting lost and the beauty of topographic maps to find myself. In my adult life ...

A routine temperature check at the Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park led geologists to discover a new blue ...

The flights will image geology as part of a national effort to modernize geological maps in the region. The planes will take measurements over a large swath of central and western Massachusetts.

After years of trying to make paper maps work on computers, the U.S. Geological Survey wants digital maps to work like paper ones.

Landslides are a common hazard in the US. In fact, nearly 44% of the country could experience one, potentially catastrophically. Our new national landslide susceptibility map shows where they ...

How would you go about identifying usable land that suits your building tastes? [Scott Sexton] was specifically looking for land that’s not too steep to build on, and realized that existing ...

The Texas Hill Country has been notorious for flash floods caused by the Guadalupe River. Here's why the area is called ...

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Guatemala on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological ...

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

The name “Nazi Creek” will no longer be used for federal databases or maps. On Thursday, the Domestic Names Committee for the ...