Black Friday started with a little shake in Indiana, according to the United States Geological Survey. The federal agency ...

COURTESY USGS The red dot on this U.S. Geological Survey map shows the approximate location of a 3.5 magnitude earthquake this afternoon off Oahu. A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck in the Kaiwi ...

Braden Harker, an economist and former federal official, is now leading the National Minerals Information Center.

Sinkholes usually form over time by a phenomenon called karst processes, in which groundwater breaks down minerals in the ...

Pennsylvania, where a grandmother disappeared this week, is one of the states where sinkholes are most common in the U.S.

In the United States Geological Survey's latest report, the number of landslides caused by Hurricane Helene has surpassed ...

The panel that oversees water permits in South Dakota has removed the caps it had on the James River. The state Water ...

A cold snap is hitting the Southeast U.S., including western North Carolina, which is still recovering from the widespread ...

A 2.3-magnitude earthquake shook Connecticut near Moodus Wednesday evening around 7:30 p.m., according to the United States ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted 13 km ESE of Pagudpud, Philippines at 18:54:45 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

A preliminary 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck about 4.4 miles north of Malibu in Los Angeles County at about 2:15 p.m. Friday ...

A Stanford geophysics professor, Segall has devoted his career to advancing understanding of earthquake and volcanic ...