New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...

A recent Virginia Tech study reveals that the Pacific Northwest faces a heightened risk of catastrophic flooding and ...

The loss of intertidal wetlands directly impacts ecosystem services such as water filtration, habitat for fisheries and ...

Unlike gradual climate-driven events, this potential earthquake would “happen within minutes, leaving no time for adaptation ...

The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed 57 lives and blasted the terrain of old-growth ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

That lecture included a summary of the earthquakes that had occurred during the term. The largest and deadliest that semester was a M7.8 in Nepal and a wrap on earthquake hazards. I organized ...

Earlier this year Cal Fire — the state’s firefighting agency — released an updated set of fire hazard maps, the first in almost 15 years. These new maps focus on cities, counties and other ...

"There is a significant earthquake hazard in the southeastern U.S., " particularly around the New Madrid and East Tennessee seismic zones," Sobieszczyk said. There have been 15 other earthquakes ...

The research is supported by the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program. Using rock samples collected from the fault, Shreedharan combined experiments and analysis in his Rock ...

WRAL News reached out to geophysicist Thomas Pratt, who coordinates the eastern region's earthquake hazards program. Pratt said, fortunately, earthquakes in North Carolina are not usually dangerous.

Each story in the KXAN Data Hub is updated as new data becomes available. AUSTIN (KXAN) — When you think of earthquakes in the U.S., Texas is probably not the first state that comes to mind.