What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

Federal cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey have prompted fears of losing vital information on earthquake activity and ...

As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time ...

Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey sought ...

Do you know that humans have only explored 5% of the ocean? 95% of the ocean is still unexplored, holding countless mysteries ...