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A 3.6-magnitude earthquake was reported in Merced County, California on Monday evening, with no damage reported.
A minor, 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.
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A preliminary 3.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Los Banos Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake, which hit at 6:37 p.m., was centered 15.7 miles west of Los Banos and ...
In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...
Pakistan straddles the boundary where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, making the country susceptible to earthquakes ...
The USGS partners on this effort with the Michigan Geological Survey, the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, and many other state geological surveys.
In late June 2025, an ancient city covering several square miles was discovered beneath Wyoming's Horse Peak mountain. In ...
A new U.S. Geological Survey national report points to the large amount of estimated undiscovered natural gas lying below federal lands in western Colorado, and two recent assessments zero in ...
A magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck deep off the coast of the southern Philippines on Saturday, the United States Geological ...
The journal Science has published a paper by Jen Pierce, a professor in the Department of Geosciences, and 19 co-authors from ...
US President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday announced policy changes it said would speed up the search and development of offshore critical minerals. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ...