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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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.

(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.

The new USGS map shows a risk hot spot in Oklahoma similar to the one in southern California. Illustration by USGS New Map Shows Rise in Human-Caused Earthquake Risk The USGS map is the first to ...