Braden Harker, an economist and former federal official, is now leading the National Minerals Information Center.

COURTESY USGS The red dot on this U.S. Geological Survey map shows the approximate location of a 3.5 magnitude earthquake this afternoon off Oahu. A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck in the Kaiwi ...

Sinkholes usually form over time by a phenomenon called karst processes, in which groundwater breaks down minerals in the ...

Pennsylvania, where a grandmother disappeared this week, is one of the states where sinkholes are most common in the U.S.

Freezing temperatures across South Carolina didn’t stop rumbling beneath the ground as an earthquake was recorded in the ...

A cold snap is hitting the Southeast U.S., including western North Carolina, which is still recovering from the widespread ...

In a sharp escalation of the ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China, Beijing has announced an immediate ...

The United States Geological Survey reported a 3.5 magnitude earthquake between Oahu and Molokai, and a 2.1 magnitude ...

Key TakeawaysExperts estimate there are hundreds of thousands of oil and gas wells in the United States that are not formally ...

It was a good year for space science as Sumner Starrfield, an astronomer at Arizona State University, described what was to ...

Earthquakes have made a significant impact globally in 2024, with multiple tremors reported across different regions. This ...

The more we go into the future, the more you can also use the past.” Since 2011, the United States Geological Survey has ...