A study analyzes the enormous impact of earthquakes on the Mediterranean city, where the population has multiplied sixfold ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.7 struck near Sherman Oaks on Tuesday. No significant damage was expected. An ...

Santa Rosa City Schools campuses are being transformed this summer, but two campuses must undergo required earthquake studies ...

Dominant trade wind conditions generally send tephra and volcanic gas southwest over the remote Ka ʻū Desert. Eruption ...

San Onofre’s nuclear waste may be one step closer to being relocated, but at least one of the storage canisters containing ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine assembled this morning to push the president’s claims that the recent U.S.

Scientists say Africa is slowly splitting in two due to molten rock pulses beneath Ethiopia, potentially forming a new ocean ...

Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.

As another school year ends, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory welcomes two new summer interns: Kamalani Poepoe and Ruth ...

Hundreds of decisions—how to build roads, where to send medicine, how to plan for natural disasters—depend on knowing where people live. Over the past few decades, population maps have become powerful ...

As another school year ends, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory welcomes two new summer interns: Kamalani Poepoe and Ruth ...