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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Even a century after one of the world's largest volcanic eruptions, a strong wind still whips up the ash that rained down on what became known as Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
Pumice chunks still dot the beaches of Kodiak Island across Shelikof Strait.The three-day explosion that began June 6, 1912, spewed ash as high as 100,000 feet above the sparsely populated Katmai region, covering the remote valley to depths up to 700 feet. The volcanic cloud spread across the United States and traveled as far as Algeria in northern Africa in the most powerful eruption of the 20th century and one of the five largest in recorded history."Every minute we are awaiting death," John Orloff wrote to his wife from Kaflia Bay, 30 miles east of the explosion.Remarkably, there were no eruption-related deaths, although the ash-filled air was believed to be a contributing factor in the death of an elderly Kodiak-area woman who had health problems that included tuberculosis.The eruption killed an unt...A magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattled Japan's southern Bonin Islands on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, a day after a stronger quake jolted the r...
A strong earthquake has hit eastern Indonesia. There are no immediate reports of damage or casualties.Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency says the 6.2 magn...
One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least four people, to...
A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy Sunday, killing four people, knocking down a clock tower and other centuries-old buildings an...
A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy Sunday, killing four people, knocking down a clock tower and other centuries-old buildings an...
Republican senators are accusing President Obama of pushing a "less-than-honest" claim about the scarcity of domestic oil, after a U.S. Geological Survey study showe...
A moderate earthquake early Saturday in central Oklahoma knocked pictures off walls and woke people and pets as it shook an area that stretched into Arkansas, Kansas...
The U.S. Geological Survey says a very minor earthquake caused a mysterious boom heard in Northeast Philadelphia.USGS geophysicist John Bellini says Friday night's e...
A magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook eastern Japan off the quake-ravaged coast on Monday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, prompting Japan to issue a tsunami...
A powerful earthquake killed at least 17 people in northern Italy Tuesday, collapsing churches and factories. Rescue workers combing through the rubble of the quake ...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck northern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people as factories, warehouses and a church collapsed in the same region still stru...
Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and deadly quake earlier this month when another one struck...
A wall of smoke advances across a vast swath of rugged country in southwestern New Mexico where the nation's wilderness movement was born nearly a century ago.From t...
From the air, the smoke from a massive wildfire stretches as far as the eye can see, spreading across the rugged country in southwestern New Mexico where the nation'...
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 4.0 magnitude earthquake has rattled central Oklahoma, the latest in a series of temblors to rock the state over the weeken...
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific Coast of Panama on Sunday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.The epicenter was 230 miles south of David, P...
A small earthquake has given a jolt to the Southern California coast but there are no reports of damages or injuries.The U.S. Geological Survey says in a preliminary...
A small earthquake has jolted the Southern California coast but there are no reports of damages or injuries.The U.S. Geological Survey says in a preliminary report t...
U.S. Geological Survey says magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand.
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