Geology News

A STRONG earthquake measuring six shook southern Peru early today, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, the US Government reported.

LEXINGTON, Ky. Kentucky Geological Survey Director James Cobb has been voted president of the Association of American State Geologists .

A small earthquake has rattled the San Diego coast but there are no reports of damage or injuries.

President Barack Obama announced Thursday, July 9, that he intends to nominate Marcia McNutt, professor of Geophysics at Stanford, to be the director of the U.S. Geological Survey and Science Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior.

A woman walks on the debris of her collapsed house in the Yao'an county of Yunnan province yesterday.

Bolivia's vast lithium riches could bring the country out of poverty a ' but success depends on working with foreign firms Huge reserves of lithium a ' the element used to make high-tech batteries a ' are in Bolivia's salt deserts.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 2.0 magnitude earthquake struck Friday morning near Cleburne, the latest in a series of low-intensity tremors in that area.

One of the world's largest glaciers, on the west coast of Greenland, is shrinking at an alarming rate as a result of global warming -- with potentially dire consequences.

President Barack Obama on Thursday announced he will nominate Marcia McNutt, president and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, as director of the U.S. Geological Survey.

A moderate earthquake hit southwestern China, destroying more than 10,000 homes and leaving hundreds of people injured, state media and seismologists said Friday.

A Chinese firm started work on a copper deposit in Afghanistan on Thursday, part of a multi-billion dollar project and the first major foreign investment of its kind in Afghan history, an official said.

Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.

Joan Etzenhouser of San Tan Valley reaches into one of the fissures on her property.

Mayon Volcano's crater floor so far has not showed signs of abnormalities, an official of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology in Legazpi City said.

The Amazon River originated as a transcontinental river around 11 million years ago and took its present shape approximately 2.4 million years ago.

Officials say a strong earthquake has jolted a sparsely populated region in northwestern Greenland, but no injuries or damage have been reported.

An Arkansas Natural Resources Commission official says new rules concerning abandoned wells do not take away the rights of private landowners to plug their own wells.

'Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!' These were the last words heard from David Johnson, a geologist stationed 10km from Mount Saint Helens, on the morning of May 18 1980.

The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting a series of moderate earthquakes struck Monday in close proximity in Sonoma County.

No damage or injuries have been reported following a small earthquake that rattled parts of central Virginia.