Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage ...

Imagine being able to watch Earth breathe, capturing each subtle shift in the ground, tracking everything from tectonic ...

A new study suggests the seismic energy traveled outward from a previously unmapped fault, emanating from the hypocenter in ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Similar quakes in the region in the future, a seismologist warned, "could maybe focus energy toward population centers." ...

Earthquakes can happen anywhere, at any time. The Earth's outer crust is made of tectonic plates, floating on the planet's upper mantle. The edges of these plates, called fault lines, are where most ...

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Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit central Mongolia on Sunday, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, ...

University of Washington’s department of earth and space sciences (ESS). The department hosted a celebratory event at the Burke Museum on Sept. 20, which ...