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A magnitude 2.0 earthquake was reported 3 kilometers east of Plainville, Connecticut yesterday, according to the United ...
New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...
Southern Utah trying to hammer out water shortage plan as severe drought persists. Nailing down the details isn't easy.
The earthquake was centered near Akutan at a depth of 10 kilometers (about 6.2 miles). The USGS said it received zero reports ...
Find out which volcanoes in the US are the most active. This article gives clear information about their past eruptions and ...
USGS has identified that geothermal resources in the Great Basin of Nevada could potentially provide one-tenth of US ...
California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.
On Wednesday, May 21, a research paper was published in Wildlife Monographs highlighting work of the USGS co-op in Madison. It is titled "White-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus) habitat use and ...
Small raindrops are spherical due to the surface tension force being stronger than the air pressure force, while larger raindrops are flattened due to increased air pressure and break apart into ...
Of the 15 distinct species of cranes, two migratory cranes (sandhill and whooping) seem to be prime candidates for colonizing ...
The recent news that North America and Hawaii are facing a ticking time bomb is disconcerting. Scientists are warning that ...
A 2.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Nicholasville early Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological ...