The US Geological Survey and Google are now making global earthquake data available in Google Earth as one of the layers under “Places of Interest.”. According to the USGS: USGS and Google ...

Most people today use Google Maps to find local schools, malls, and the closest Starbucks, according to this year’s Google Zeitgeist, which catalogs the top searches of 2011. But there was more ...

When earthquakes occur, tools like Google Earth can be very helpful for visualizing the affected areas and working to help those in need of assistance. Relief organizations use Google Earth and ...

To display the earthquake locations in the Google Earth viewer, go to the layers menu, and look in the folder "Places of Interest." Open the "Geographic Features" folder, and click on "Earthquakes." ...

GOOGLE EARTH has captured a number of terrifying images showing the after-effects of the 2013 tornado that struck Moore in Oklahoma. Taking 24 lives, it also tore its way through a number of the ...

Google is adding tools to Google Maps and search to help you survive a natural disaster. When a hurricane, flood or earthquake affects your area, you may want to get of town as quickly as possible.

There’s no hiding from a scientist with access to a satellite. A man searching the Australian outback on Google Earth pointed researchers in the direction of a strange scar cutting through the dirt.

Google Earth photographed Tuscaloosa one day after the tornado there. For the Joplin tornado, an aerial photograph was taken on June 7, 16 days after the twister.

Scientists have used Google's online street view scans to document the damage caused by the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake and suggests that the database would be a useful tool for surveying damage ...

Google, Microsoft and other IT companies are donating their money and skill sets to help Haiti in the wake of a massive earthquake that devastated the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, on Jan. 12.

Spotting a tornado from space. A study released in Nov. 2024 added one more tornado to the list. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that a man hunting for caves on Google Earth ...