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

A minor, 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 5:16 p.m. Pacific time about 3 miles west of ...

Footage of a mudslide in northeastern Taiwan in 2022 has been misrepresented as video of a landslide in a southern Philippine ...

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

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In late June 2025, an ancient city covering several square miles was discovered beneath Wyoming's Horse Peak mountain. In ...

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 ...

The Trump administration’s proposed budget bill would cut funding to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) by nearly 40%, ...

Mount Rainier on Tuesday experienced its largest seismic activity since 2009, with a swarm of small earthquakes detected.

The USGS partners on this effort with the Michigan Geological Survey, the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, and many other state geological surveys.

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...