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On January 28, 2020, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea, roughly equidistant from the coasts of Jamaica, Cuba and the Cayman...

The USGS and its research partners in India and Japan have reported on one of the most extensive data sets ever collected on the occurrence of natural...

USGS continues its estimates of technically recoverable oil and gas in Alaska's North Slope.

Research by the USGS and Dickinson College reveals why scientists fail to detect brown treesnakes at low densities

A sequence of earthquakes in southwest Puerto Rico continues to affect people living there, with the largest recent aftershock a magnitude 5.2 on Jan...

SPARROW models, tools, and maps of streamflow, nutrients, and sediment for streams in five major U.S. regions

Caribou, North America’s wild reindeer, have lives apart from their famous role on Christmas Eve. To learn more about how  these Arctic antler-bearers...

Investigating the effects of historical phosphorus on current river water quality. 

USGS experts recently released a study that incorporates the latest earthquake science findings into an update of the National Seismic Hazard Model...

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