New Delhi: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has dispatched the radar antenna reflector—a vital component of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR)—to India ...

to map the globe in 12 days, while gathering spatially and temporally consistent data that will provide insights into Earth’s ecosystems, ice mass, vegetation biomass, sea level rise, groundwater and ...

SEATTLE — The Pacific Northwest continues to see spikes in seismic activity, from Mount St. Helens earlier this year to more recently, Mount Adams in southern Washington. The United States ...

Recent Death Valley earthquakes spark Las Vegas concerns as seismologists monitor activity, urging preparedness for residents.

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one ...

HAWAII ISLAND, Hawaii (KHON2) — USGS officials are on high alert following heightened seismic activity at Kamaʻehuakanaloa volcano off Hawaiʻi Island. In this earthquake series, USGS officials ...

A mild tremor was felt in northeast Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley Thursday afternoon, after a preliminary 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck near Pasadena. The earthquake hit around 4:04 p.m ...

To create those maps, researchers deploy seismometers on the surface—little machines that sense and chronicle all sorts of vibrations, including earthquakes. Seismic waves are a bit like music.

Beautiful beaches. Majestic mountains. Hollywood. One more thing Southern California is known for: earthquakes. Yet for a long time, and to the great relief of millions, the many active faults ...

An earthquake felt throughout Iran on Saturday evening led to speculation about the country's use of nuclear weapons on social media. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei views the Iran ...