A small earthquake rattled the New York metropolitan area Saturday night. The US Geological Survey said the tremor had a ...

COLUMBUS, N.C. (WLOS) — A minor earthquake rumbled through Polk County this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

A tiny mountain town in North Carolina has seen three earthquakes over four days, and it appears to be part of a trend in ...

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A 2.7-magnitude earthquake was recorded the morning of Aug. 14 near Columbus, North Carolina, and people are reporting they ...

The 1970s was the last time the USGS did this kind of mapping in Massachusetts, said Shah. A big difference, she said, is today’s data is high resolution imagery that wasn't available in the 1970s.

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The quake was felt from greater Los Angeles south to San Diego and east to the Palm Springs desert region, according to the USGS community reporting page. That 4.6-magnitude quake caused no ...

It took about a month for researchers to find the tracker as the snake moved in and out of Key Largo’s labyrinth of caves, and when they did, they found a 12-foot-long, 66-pound female python ...

USGS excels at this sort of work: Its Bee Lab inventories all the nation’s native bees; the Bird Banding Lab and Breeding Bird Survey do much the same for birds, and their cutting-edge ...

USGS "Our conclusions are that the likely trigger for this was permafrost degradation due to warming temperatures" which, accompanied by a higher influx of water from spring snowmelt, weakened the ...

The U.S. Geological Survey recently discovered the largest continuous oil and gas deposit ever found in the United States, officials said Tuesday. The agency announced that the Wolfcamp shale ...