Kīlauea remains relatively quiet today. This Volcano Watch article explains activity related to the intrusion of a shallow dike last night. https://www.usgs.gov ...

Crushed stone production increased 6.8 percent while sand and gravel production rose 4 percent, according to new U.S. Geological Survey estimates.

Nearly one-third of the 1,271 known U.S. critical mineral deposits have documented resources but no production, according to an updated U.S. Geological Survey database that points to largely untapped ...

Somewhere beneath Kansas, a well drilled in the 1980s for natural gas kept returning an unexpected reading: hydrogen, in concentrations high enough to notice but not high enough for anyone to care ...

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Across the country, the data collected at stream gauges managed by the U.S. Geological Survey are used to implement drought measures when streamflows are low, alert local authorities of floods, help ...

Washington, Aug 27 (PTI) The Nepal flash floods were triggered by a glacial collapse and not by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake as reported earlier, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.The USGS said ...

Potential statistical 'outliers' were determined separately for each state. Specifically, outliers are defined here as soil lead results that are two and three standard deviations greater than the ...