(Maps courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey) The famous Western U.S. explorer John Wesley Powell (also the second director ...

The earthquake was located 11 miles east of Pleasanton and 35 miles south of San Antonio. It's the 12th strongest quake ever ...

The larger, 6.8-magnitude quake happened at 11:49 a.m. Cuba time about 24 miles south of Bartolomé Masó, Cuba, data from the ...

Climate change is accelerating in New England, with the region warming faster than any other part of the United States. The ...

Two 3.0+ earthquakes were reported in the Inland Empire on Saturday near Fontana, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

“The [magnitude] 6.8 earthquake [on Nov. 10] near Cuba occurred near or within the Septentrional-Oriente Fault Zone ,” ...

The study, led by the United States Geological Survey, discovered between 5 million ... Researchers used artificial intelligence to develop a map of the area that they say contains enough lithium ...

could potentially experience landslide activity, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). In response, the agency has released a new nationwide landslide susceptibility map that provides a ...

Scientists tracking Earth's magnetic pole have recently spotted it heading toward Siberia. Where it will end up, no one knows ...

Thanks to a $498,999 grant from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), David Boutt, professor in the Department of Earth ...

At the tops of many mountains and along numerous roads are small brass disks called benchmarks. These survey points map the ...