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The National Weather Service issued a tsunami watch for the West Coast after an earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka ...
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) constantly records earthquakes in the United States, so that both experts and the population at large can know everything about current seismic activity ...
The chances that California will be rocked by a magnitude 8.0 earthquake or greater in the next 30 years was just bumped up to 7 percent, from 4.7 percent, the U.S. Geological Survey said on ...
The USGS said Friday it is "closely tracking" a swarm of hundreds of earthquakes that began Thursday in an area near the Sierra Nevada resort town of Mammoth Lakes.
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the amount of brackish — or slightly salty — groundwater is more than 35 times the amount of fresh groundwater used in the United States each year.
In the USGS study, published Wednesday in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, researchers brought together a number of models that examined wave action, tides, coastal erosion and flooding in ...
A preliminary 3.5-magnitude earthquake rattled Rialto on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.