For nearly a century, seismographs were the only instruments used to record and measure earthquakes. Seismographs employ mechanical or electronic sensors to measure ground motion as a function of time ...

The Youth and Education in Science (YES) program at USGS in collaboration with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) is launching a community outreach and educational project called Bridging Local ...

It's not the place you'd expect to find a piece of high-tech earthquake monitoring equipment, in the storage room of the Cushing Municipal Airport, but it's exactly where the U.S. Geological Survey ...

Faster Than a Speeding Bullet - A two-mile wide meteorite traveling 60 times faster than a fired bullet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 35 million years ago, causing the sixth largest known impact ...

Mount Baker remains an active volcano with immense destructive capacity and is among several Cascades peaks that are worrisome because scientists aren’t able to study them effectively, a new report ...

The first earthquake was reported in Jackson County, about 30 miles north of the Ohio River, around 4 p.m. It had a magnitude of 3.1. The epicenter was near Oak Hill, Ohio, according to a USGS ...