Geology News

Fourth-grade student Jyron Young was awarded the Grand Prize in HVOAfA*s centennial poster contest for his stunning artwork depicting 100 years of volcano watching, top center.

A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Sunday afternoon 15 miles from Coso Junction in Inyo County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

CAPITOL's Engineering Office has yet to check the reported cracks in the mountains of Ronda, saying the issue is not their concern yet.

Think of the West and what comes to mind are vertiginous peaks, sculpted tablelands and the infinite vistas of basin and range country.

A new laser guided tool is helping geologists map in 3D exactly how earthquakes wreck landscapes, down to a few square inches of the devasted zone.

PETER Kennett has many years experience of trying to make people enthusiastic about geology in the face of the more cuddly areas of natural history.

The epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 11:58 pm local time , was located 52 kilometers south southwest of the city of Concepcion, according to the US Geological Survey.

Earthquakes will be the focus of an upcoming meeting of the Sierra Club in Temecula.

A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday morning three miles from Niland east of the Salton Sea, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A Manila-based environment studies professor said the fault line that caused the strong earthquake in Central Visayas last Monday has been known since 2008.

Gillie Waddington of Enfield, N.Y., raises a fist during rally against hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. Smelling gas one morning, a southern Pennsylvania farmer almost passed out when he went outside to check on his bellowing cows.

Gretchen Jones never fails to impress - her design aesthetic moves beyond her clothes and into her always thought-provoking presentations .

The U.S. Geological Survey has opened the California Volcano Observatory at its headquarters in Menlo Park with the purpose of increasing awareness of and resiliency to volcano threats in California.

Twin Falls Mysterious rumbles strike southern Magic Valley. KMVT received a few messages of people feeling and hearing a rumble Wednesday night.

Two years ago, Wilson, one of the highest-profile investors in the Calgary oil patch, forked over $3.4 million for a 20 per cent stake in Calgary-based Forent Energy Ltd., which is looking for oil in the Alton Block, near Stewiacke.

After massive cracks were found in a mountain in Ronda town, authorities said the residents should be evacuated to safer ground.

ROTARY HOSTS TALK ON MELTING GLACIERS. Geologist Denis St-Onge spoke about melting glaciers at a recent Rotary Club of West Ottawa meeting on Jan.

A powerful earthquake centered beneath the southwestern Philippines left at least 43 people dead as it rocked seven of the country's provinces.

Orthoversion prediction of future supercontinent, Amasia, named for its fusing the Americas and Asia by closure of the Arctic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

The Black Point Lava Flow in northern Arizona offers a research haven for NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies team of scientists and engineers, because this rough, dusty terrain, with its extreme temperatures that swing from hot to cold, resembles other places in the solar system.