The flights will image geology as part of a national effort to modernize geological maps in the region. The planes will take measurements over a large swath of central and western Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Geological Survey is a UMass department that researches, tracks and maps the commonwealth’s water and geological resources.

Massachusetts is also one of several states that is suffering land subsidence, which happens partly because of natural geological processes as well as human activities such as the extraction of ...

The map shows the majority of reports were concentrated on the North Shore of Massachusetts, southeastern New Hampshire and southern Maine, where the epicenter of the 3.8 magnitude earthquake ...

The flights, happening across much of New England, will image geology as part of a national effort to modernize the region's geological maps.

A 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Bliss Corner, Massachusetts, on Sunday morning, according to preliminary information from the US Geological Survey.

I use thermochronology, geochronology, and geologic observations to address problems in continental tectonics and mantle dynamics, with particular focus on understanding the coupling of deeper Earth ...

If you missed seeing the northern lights last night, parts of Massachusetts, including Central Mass., have a chance to see them again tonight.

There were several reports Friday morning from people in Massachusetts and Rhode Island who felt buildings shake. It wasn't an earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey.

In 1884, Dr. Johnston-Lavis laid before the Geological Society an elaborate memoir, in which he detailed the theoretical conclusions at which he had arrived after long and patient study of the ...