We have in the past looked at a lot of content provided by the USGS. The USGS is the provider of the data for the ‘earthquakes layer’ in Google Earth. We also looked at some of their future plans, ...

This month the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) rolled out topoView 2.1, a modern web application built on an open source mapping platform that lets users discover, interact, and download historical USGS ...

This screen shot shows a web app from esri that allows users to over-lay historic maps. The map above shows Harrisburg in the 1970s and the Harrisburg area at the turn of the 20th century. Who doesn't ...

At a magnitude of 6.7, the Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake wasn’t unusual in terms of its size. Since 1900, an average of 120 earthquakes per year worldwide are in the magnitude-6.0 to 6.9 range.

This past summer, the U.S. Geological Survey began large-scale low-level airplane flights over the Upper Peninsula and ...

The potential for catastrophic earthquakes to rock nearly every corner of the United States is becoming a growing threat, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. By analyzing the newest seismic ...

Damaging earthquakes could strike nearly 75 percent of the U.S, new research from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found. Scientists using the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model,created a color-coded ...