In what the agency hopes will spur a major leap in American geoscience, the U.S. Geological Survey has released a new mapping tool that allows anyone to peer into the earth beneath their feet. Dubbed ...

The Maine Geological Survey has released a new interactive web map viewer that allows communities, businesses and others along the state's southern coast to manage coastal infrastructure as sea and ...

In late August, the U.S. Geological Survey quietly released a new tool that could reshape how Americans understand the ground beneath their feet. The Cooperative National Geologic Map, now live online ...

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

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Geological Survey (CGS) released new tsunami hazard maps for San Francisco, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties, useful for determining where to evacuate when a ...

The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A fixed-wing aircraft equipped by magnetic sensors flew a grid over roughly 5,000 of ...

The Cooperative National Geologic Map offers a complete and detailed look at the bedrock and fault systems of the continental United States. The first geological map of the United States was published ...

A massive earthquake had just rocked the city of Sendai, Japan, on March 11 when the sea left its bed and came on land. People fled as the torrent of water swept away cars, took buildings off their ...

Mapping technology is infinitely better than it used to be, but satellites and LiDAR can never recapture the craft that went into making old-school US Geological Survey Maps. Instead, graphic designer ...