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 South Texas earthquake near Pleasanton was felt from Corpus Christi to San Antonio and over to Falls City, marking a ...

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

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 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 ...

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

From petrified forests to a fiery crater burning for 50+ years, these eight geological phenomena reveal Earth's mysterious forces.

São Sebastião, a municipality on the coast of São Paulo state in Brazil that was partially cut off from the rest of the ...

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

At an age when many people retire and with a resume line that includes “Director, U.S. Geological Survey,” one might wonder why he cared enough to travel to Fairbanks to gather geologists and ...