Jessica Fitzpatrick

Improvements to the quality and usability of Landsat satellite data have been made with the release of a new USGS product called Landsat Analysis...

Monitoring our changing planet is critical to supporting a world population expected to reach eight billion by 2025. Observing the Earth from space...

Do you know what to do the moment the ground starts shaking? Drop, Cover, and Hold On!

Scientists looked back 10 to 13 thousand years to gain real-world insight into the environmental factors that influence hurricanes near Florida and...

Living in the Outer Banks means living with the power of the sea. Jutting out from North Carolina’s coast into the Atlantic Ocean, this series of...

While major geomagnetic storms are rare, with only a few recorded per century, there is significant potential for large-scale impacts when they do...

The USGS is currently soliciting project proposals for 2018 grants on earthquake hazards science. 

New USGS maps identify potential ground-shaking hazards in 2017 from both human-induced and natural earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S.

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On March 1, a USGS study will be released that shows potential ground-shaking hazards in 2017 from both human-induced and natural earthquakes.