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A new interactive map and companion report from the U.S. Geological Survey allows residents living in and around New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains to see...

During what months is hurricane season typically recognized along the Atlantic Coast?

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Twenty middle-school girls from Washington and Oregon are participating in the second annual “GeoGirls” outdoor volcano science program...

There are approximately 1,550 potentially active volcanoes around the world. VDAP works to reduce loss of life and property, limit economic impact and...

Forty years ago on July 31, as Coloradoans and tourists celebrated the state’s centennial, between 12 and 14 inches of rain fell over a four-hour...

A new geologic map of the Long Valley Caldera, Mammoth Mountain, and the Middle Fork canyon of the San Joaquin River including Devils Postpile...

In what year did the United States experience the most acres burned from wildfires (on record)?

Virginia Beach residents and local emergency managers have a new tool to monitor storm tides and flooding this hurricane season with the installation...

Recent scientific work has confirmed the source, composition and origin of methane seeps on the Atlantic Ocean seafloor, discovered in 2012, where...

On October 17, 2015, a rain-soaked mountainside slid into Taan Fiord on Icy Bay, sending a giant wave more than 500 feet up the opposite slope.