You might see airplanes closer to the ground in the coming weeks. A news release from the U.S. Geological Survey says a project to image local geology across the ...

Earthquakes are measured on several scales. The Moment Magnitude (Mw) scale is used by the United States Geological Service ...

The incident took place on the afternoon of Monday September 16, 2024, when the woman, her husband, and their leashed dog ...

Between Norris Geyser Basin and Mammoth Hot Springs is an interesting thermal area known as Roaring Mountain. These days, it ...

California is a place of magnificent tectonic forces that lift mountains only for them to be constantly eroded by glaciers, ...

A “lava falls” could be seen at the brink of Napau crater at Kilauea on September 19, as eruption activity continued at the ...

Ongoing slides have caused devastating damage to homes on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, but owners remain on the hook for ...

Kīlauea Volcano activity prompts a 90-day closure of the Kahaualeʻa Natural Area Reserve in Puna for safety reasons.

High-resolution radiometric and magnetic data from an airborne geophysical survey of the Medicine Bow Mountains in southern ...

Videos from the U.S. Geological Survey showed lava spewing from a fissure in the volcano, into the Nāpau Crater in the middle of the volcano's East Rift Zone.

Webcam footage shows lava tumbling over a steep edge like a waterfall of molten rock in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Zhong Lu is the Shuler-Foscue Chair in the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences.