Yaareb Altaweel, a geophysicist with the survey’s National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, said the USGS ...

USGS officials are investigating what set off multiple earthquake sensors in Nevada.

The false alert Thursday mistakenly claimed a magnitude 5.9 earthquake had struck near Carson City, Nevada. Here's what ...

HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CA - the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a preliminary 3.4 magnitude quake rattled close to Fortuna ...

Phosphoria has almost completely exhausted its hidden oil reserves, while a final gas field is redefining the energy future.

ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA - the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a preliminary 2.6 magnitude quake occurred near Livermore ...

A local county in western Nevada said residents received a false alert for a 5.9 magnitude earthquake.

The ShakeAlert early warning system that notifies people about earthquakes as they are occurring alerted more than 600,000 people across Northern California of a magnitude 5.9 earthquake Thursday ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

People throughout Northern California received a MyShake alert on Thursday at 8:06 a.m., notifying them of an earthquake in ...

The reserve, located to the west of Prudhoe Bay, has been the site of interest by oil and gas producers working in Alaska.