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 ...

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 ...

National Seismic Hazard Model (2023). Map displays the likelihood of damaging earthquake shaking in the United States over the next 100 years. GOLDEN, Colo. – Nearly 75 percent of the U.S. could ...

Damaging earthquakes could strike nearly 75 percent of the U.S, new research from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found. Scientists using the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model,created a color-coded ...

From weather patterns to chemical reactions, what contributes to how the sediment beneath your feet forms is complex and extensive. And if you’ve ever stopped to pick up a cool rock or check out the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (KSWB) — Earthquakes can’t be ...

The U.S. Geological Survey plans to start low-level plane flights this month across eastern Iowa to update national maps and in hopes of finding rare earth materials.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – When a 4.8-magnitude earthquake ...