Hours after a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the Russian coast, becoming one of the strongest tremors ever ...

Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning ...

Warnings, advisories and watches were issued in Alaska, Hawaii, California, Oregon and Washington after a magnitude 8.8 ...

A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s remote east coast Wednesday local time, sending tsunami waves ...

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake was reported in California on Thursday (July 31), according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was centered near Muscoy at a depth of 5.3 kilometers ...

The tsunami advisory for Hawaii has been lifted after a massive earthquake off Russia’s far eastern coast put the region on high alert. Tsunami warnings for the US coastline and Japan were downgraded ...

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck south of the Fiji Islands at 1753GMT on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said. The ...

The United States Geological Survey, abbreviated USGS and formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study ...

The United States is planning to restrict scrap copper exports from 2027, requiring that at least 25% of so-called ...

Quake hit about 1.8 miles east-northeast of Oakland -- a city on the east side of San Francisco Bay, according to the United States Geological Survey May 14, 2018 ...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) was founded on March 3rd, 1879, through an Act of Congress. At the time, the small staff was tasked with mapping public lands and hunting for minerals.

Today it charts and measures not only the lands and resources of the United States, but also the Moon and Mars and beyond. Here are a few things discovered by the U.S. Geological Survey. 1.