"The moon is sort of like Earth's attic in terms of preserving the impact records; it's the only place where we can get Earth ...

A team of geologists coming from New Zealand, New Caledonia, Australia, the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea and ...

A moderately strong, 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Nevada on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

More than two hundred years ago, a man called William Smith did something extraordinary. He became the first person to map the geology of an entire nation. Not only was this scientifically significant ...

Geologic maps are not an exact depiction of the Earth’s surface. Instead, geologic maps display a generalization of interested units and features in correspondence with the scale of a map.

California’s tsunami warning on Thursday after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake off the Humboldt County coast was quickly canceled. But it was a reminder of the hazards facing residents and visitors along ...

If you’ve spent your time searching if there was an earthquake in your area, an interactive map from the U.S. Geological ...

A major earthquake rattled off the northern coast of California, with impacts stretching along nearly 600 miles of coastline.