Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A moderate earthquake struck Northern California's coast Monday afternoon, rattling nerves around the Oregon border but yielding no immediate reports of major injuries or damage, officials said.
The magnitude-5.6 quake struck at 1:07 p.m. about 18 miles inland in an unincorporated part of Humboldt County, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter was a rural area near the small community of Weitchpec on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, about 240 miles north of San Francisco and about 60 miles south of the Oregon border.The temblor was widely felt within a 100-mile radius, according to the USGS website.The Humboldt County Sheriff's Department and Eureka Police Department sent deputies and officers to check on residents, but dispatchers said there were no immediate reports of emergencies. Things also seemed fine on the Hoopa reservation, according to Byron Nelson Jr., the tribe's vice chairman."It was just a mild shaking. It wasn't a sharp jerk," said Sgt. Gene McManus of the Del...A tsunami alert was issued after northern Japan was hit with a 7.3 magnitude earthquake. Buildings shook hundreds of miles away in Tokyo, but there were no immediate...
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 new report on a flash flood that killed 20 people at a remote Arkansas campground last year says floodwaters reached an average depth of 7 feet in part of the camp...
The floodwaters that killed 20 people at a remote Arkansas campground last year swelled well above campers' heads and raced through the flood plain at speeds of up t...
Federal scientists say they have dated coral living near the site of the busted BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico at 2,000 years old.The U.S. Geological Survey said ...
NEW ORLEANS -- Federal scientists say they have dated coral living near the site of the busted BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico at 2,000 years old.The U.S. Geologic...
Between out-of-control fires and destructive invasive species, Australia is facing major environmental problems. Now, an Australian scientist says he has a radical s...
A world in need of faster computers, smarter phones and more energy-efficient light bulbs threatens to strain the small supply of rare metals used by the global elec...
Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology ...
Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology ...
A strong earthquake has struck waters of western Indonesia, prompting local officials to issue a tsunami warning.The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a prel...
A magnitude-4.7 earthquake and several small aftershocks shook Hawaii's Big Island on Sunday, but there were no reports of injury or damage.The quake struck beneath ...
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...
U.S. Geological Survey says magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand.
The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 has struck on the coast of central Peru .The quake was recorded at 11 minutes after...
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...
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...
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...
MANILA, Philippines -- Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake Monday that shook a...
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