Nearly all of California has a more than 95% chance of a damaging earthquake in the next century, a new United States ...

Map of the United States including Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico showing landslide susceptibility from yellow (fewer landslides) to red (more landslides), where the areas without shading ...

A team of geologists coming from New Zealand, New Caledonia, Australia, the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea and ...

And that lollipop stick is a passive sensor U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Anji Shah oversees an initiative to map critical mineral resources like cobalt and lithium in the Carolinas and ...

Guilin Karst has been included in the list of "The Second 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites" by the International Union of Geological Sciences. WEN SHAOJUN/FOR CHINA DAILY Three locations in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An earthquake was felt widely in the Los Angeles area Thursday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a preliminary 4.7 magnitude quake centered 4 miles north of Malibu. The ...

A retaining wall in North Fairmount partially collapsed in a landslide earlier this year. A new map showing the risk of landslides nationwide is based on research from a University of Cincinnati ...

China plans to create a map of the country with real-scene 3D technology by 2035, featuring geological conditions, city landscapes and specific buildings to further support social and economic ...

Climate change is fueling more severe storms and floods, droughts and fires, and communities around the world are grappling with how to prepare. Emergency managers regularly meet to examine ...

On 5 March 2024, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) — the body responsible for defining units of geological time — announced it was rejecting a proposal to formalize the ...

The report, called “bunken chosa” (literature survey), or reviews of geological maps and research papers concerning local volcanic and seismic hazards and other related factors, was done for ...

For the last seven decades, Earth has been operating in unprecedented ways, leading many researchers to argue that we have entered a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. "While it may ...