Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...
Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...
A new study suggests the seismic energy traveled outward from a previously unmapped fault, emanating from the hypocenter in ...
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 ...
Most of us by now have read or seen the governor’s news conference regarding the purchase by the Guam Housing and Urban ...
Gideon Futerman was visiting the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in the summer when he spotted Google's car-mounted ...
Sketch maps, satellite images, photos, GIS maps and geology maps are all useful, too. This video shows how to use an OS map, using scale and grid references.
The discovery of a new fault line may explain the unusually strong and displaced shaking from April’s magnitude 4.8 ...
Efforts to map groundwater, expand research and analyze water data are getting an injection with state and federal grants. The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology announced Tuesday its New ...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 was recorded near Borrego Springs Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) is mapping areas vulnerable to cold lava floods originating from Mount ...