The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.3 struck this morning in Danville.

Virginia Tech's Seismological Observatory says a small earthquake that struck central Virginia prompted numerous reports of weak to light shaking but it didn't cause any damage.

It is difficult to know whether the Golan Heights will be Israeli or Syrian territory in the future.

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A strong earthquake has rocked El Salvador and parts of Guatemala, but no there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in either country.

Can publicity help the plight of overseas Chinese detained on the mainland? When Chinese law-enforcement officials detain a visitor, his family faces excruciating decisions.

A research team led by Brown University studied seismic velocities -- the speed of seismic waves -- in the Gulf of California to determine that a geological phenomenon known as dynamic upwelling occurs in the Earth's mantle as oceanic crust is formed.

If you feel the earth move under your feet and you wonder if there's been an earthquake, there's a seismograph at Southern Oregon University that can tell you what really happened.

Earthquakes continue to rattle the California-Mexico border but there are no reports of damage or injuries.

The Yukon's mining industry heard about the worldwide recession, but it really didn't feel it, government geologist Mike Burke said this morning in his address to the 37th Yukon Geoscience Forum in Whitehorse.

The other day the forecast near my home included winds up to 50 mph. That's a strong wind, to be sure, but not something I'd write home about.

The worlda s oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide , a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years.

Earthquakes struck both ends of California Tuesday morning but no damage or injuries are reported.

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck northeast of the South Pacific island nation of Tonga on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey said, but a destructive tsunami was not expected.

The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a small earthquake near Choctaw -- just east of Oklahoma City.

A crude-bearing cache known as the Birdbear, beneath North Dakota's already booming oil patch, can be tapped using new technology that would expand horizontal drilling to parts of the state that have never seen it, geologists believe.

Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated - beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

Chiwitel Ejiofor plays the geologist who discovers the truth of the solar disruptions that have led to the eartha s crust a oedestabilizing,a causing faults in California, oceans rising and eventually major catastrophes, such as the Washington Monument crashing to the ground and entire cities destroyed by earthquakes and tsunamis.

To lawmakers staring down the barrel of a $2.6 billion budget deficit next year, the prediction of $2.3 billion a year in direct revenue from oil and gas drilling in Florida waters may sound like a dream come true.

A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has rattled Southern California's Big Bear Lake area, followed by a sharp aftershock.