Oliverio Quira often checks on his cattle near the Purace volcano in southwestern Colombia. Despite a recent alert about a ...

A powerful, magnitude-7.0 earthquake has struck in a remote area near the border between Alaska and the Canadian territory of ...

For geology enthusiasts (or anyone who’s ever picked up an interesting rock and carried it home), Devil’s Hopyard is a treasure trove of fascinating formations. The park sits on some of the oldest ...

A notification about a magnitude-5.9 earthquake in western Nevada near the California border was a false alert, the USGS said ...

Connecticut has a secret, and it’s hiding in plain sight in East Haddam – a place where waterfalls cascade over ancient rocks, where perfectly round potholes defy geological explanation, and where the ...

A research plane will be flying around Connecticut River Valley looking for a mineral called pyrrhotite, which is a "well-known hazard" in New England. It can be found under bedrock and it is known ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – An ongoing geologic survey of the Connecticut River Valley is expected to shed light on pyrrhotite, the mineral implicated in weakening building foundations in southern New ...

LANSING, MI — A commercially valuable but unpronounceable toxicant with multiple chemical variations is being increasingly found at harmful levels in Michigan waters. Sound familiar? It’s not PFAS or ...

The tremor struck at 12:11 p.m. EST about 2 kilometers southwest of Hillsdale, at a depth of 12.4 kilometers, according to the USGS. According to the USGS, residents across dozens of towns in New ...

A relatively weak, 2.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Hillsdale in northern New Jersey on Tuesday at 12:11 p.m. ET, according to the US Geological Survey. Dozens of people from Staten Island to ...

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, New Jersey (WABC) -- A small earthquake in New Jersey shook parts of the Tri-State Area on Saturday night. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the tremor with a magnitude of 3.0 ...