Sometimes, significant scientific findings occur entirely by chance. This was exactly the case with the recent discovery of a ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

A shockwave was sent through a Texas town about 40 miles south of San Antonio Thursday afternoon, November 14. Responses are ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth. The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works ...

Information about the gravitational fields of Mars has recently been analyzed and seems to reveal that there are a number of ...

FLORIDA, USA — A large 6.8 magnitude earthquake took place off the southeastern coast of Cuba Sunday around 11:49 a.m., ...

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 ...

The National Environment Agency of Georgia on Thursday said specialists from the Geology Department of the Ministry of ...

A 2.4 earthquake was reported in Georgetown, Ohio on Thursday. No damage was reported as it was a low-intensity quake.

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

Mesyatsev Island was formed from Mesyatsev Cape around 1995 as water from a nearby glacier flowed toward the Arctic Ocean, ...