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The central United States has undergone a dramatic increase in seismicity over the past 6 years. From 1973-2008, there was an average of 24...

Are you a developer, firm, or organization using mobile or web applications to enable your users? The USGS has publicly available geospatial services...

North America may have once been attached to Australia, according to research just published in Lithosphere and spearheaded by U.S. Geological Survey...

June marks National Oceans Month, a month dedicated to spreading awareness of Earth’s oceans and coastal ecosystems.

The Grand Canyon is a bit closer to how it was before one of the country’s largest dams was installed upstream.

Landsat satellite data have been produced, archived, and distributed by the U.S. Geological Survey since 1972. Data users in many different fields...

Do you know where to find extinct volcanoes or where the dinosaurs once roamed in Texas? Can you find where unconventional oil and gas formations are...

Batten down the hatches, hurricane season is here. High winds, coastal erosion, storm surge and flooding can negatively impact communities, ecosystems...

Although record low precipitation has been the main driver of one of the worst droughts in California history, abnormally high temperatures have also...

Ken Berg has been named the new director of the U.S. Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, headquartered in Corvallis, Ore.