USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground features. Here’s how to use it.

The U.S. Geological Survey citizen science project, The National Map Corps, has realized remarkable response. In less than two years, the volunteer-based project has harvested more than 100,000 ...

Wind energy is one of the fastest-growing sectors of renewable energy in the United States. About 3% of the total electricity in the United States was generated by wind turbines in 2012 (according to ...

The U.S. Geological Service recently released an update of U.S. National Seismic Hazard Maps that reflect the latest analysis of where future earthquakes will occur, how frequently they may occur, and ...

Nearly all of California has a more than 95% chance of a damaging earthquake in the next century, a new United States Geological Survey map shows. The new USGS National Seismic Hazard Model released ...

I've only seen some limited efforts on the local level in the past. The city of Seattle has been collecting landslide data since 1890, so they have a wonderful data bank of historical land-movement ...

Nearly all of California has a more than 95% chance of a damaging earthquake in the next century, according to a new United States Geological Survey map. The new USGS National Seismic Hazard Model ...

Nearly all of California has a more than 95% chance of a damaging earthquake in the next century, according to a new United States Geological Survey map. The new USGS National Seismic Hazard Model ...

Chloride and nitrate concentrations are rising and arsenic levels are holding steady or falling. Those are two of the conclusions from a U.S. Geological Survey assessment of changes in the nation’s ...

The U.S. Geological Survey plans to start low-level plane flights this month across eastern Iowa to update national maps and ...

(NEXSTAR) – When a 4.8-magnitude earthquake hit Lebanon, New Jersey, Friday morning, the shockwaves were felt far and wide. More than 120,000 responses poured into the USGS’s “Did You Feel It?” tool.

Look out, South Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri. Although California is well known for earthquakes, new federal government maps extend the high-risk zones for temblors across much more of the country ...