Maps show how heavy rainfall and rocky terrain helped create the devastating Texas floods that have killed more than 120 ...

A hydrologist explains why the region is known as Flash Flood Alley and how its geography and geology can lead to heavy ...

Iowa’s southern counties are on alert as the New Madrid Seismic Zone, known for massive earthquakes, looms nearby, ...

The fault has moved the curbs as much as a handspan, around 18 centimeters, since the time they were installed, up to 60 ...

The Concord Fault in the Bay Area is not where scientists thought. A new 4.4-mile segment is shifting under homes, prompting plans for an Earthquake Fault Zone. The fault could cause earthquakes as ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future ...

The Concord Fault, which runs through Bay Area neighborhoods in Concord and Walnut Creek is in a different location than previously understood. It could produce a major earthquake in the Bay Area.

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Guatemala on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological ...

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected at Mount Rainier so far Tuesday morning in the largest such swarm at the active ...

While earthquakes do occur on occasion in Florida, what you felt last night wasn't an earthquake, at least according to the U ...