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

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 ...

The Imperial Valley has been recognized as one of the most unique places for geological study. It may not seem like much to ...

According to estimates from a new USGS predictive model, exposure to certain PFAS chemicals may pose health risks. An ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

The United States of America may literally be sitting on top of buried treasure! Researchers explain what the discovery of ...

COURTESY USGS This map shows the location of a 4.8 magnitude earthquake on Hawaii island early Tuesday morning. A magnitude 4.8 earthquake shook the southeastern flank of Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 was recorded near Borrego Springs Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

(AP Photo/Jenny Kane) A tsunami evacuation map is displayed at the Cove Beach trailhead along ... the southern coast of ...