It's not the place you'd expect to find a piece of high-tech earthquake monitoring equipment, in the storage room of the Cushing Municipal Airport, but it's exactly where the U.S. Geological Survey ...

The world is covered in sensors. Thermometers, barometers, seismometers. When joined together, they have incredible capabilities: Through its global network of seismographs, the United States ...

The Youth and Education in Science (YES) program at USGS in collaboration with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) is launching a community outreach and educational project called Bridging Local ...

For nearly a century, seismographs were the only instruments used to record and measure earthquakes. Seismographs employ mechanical or electronic sensors to measure ground motion as a function of time ...

The first earthquake was reported in Jackson County, about 30 miles north of the Ohio River, around 4 p.m. It had a magnitude of 3.1. The epicenter was near Oak Hill, Ohio, according to a USGS ...

Backtracking on an earlier ruling, the U.S. Geological Survey now says that a magnitude-3.2 tremor that shook the region nearly two weeks ago was an earthquake. Earlier, the agency was unshakable in ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A rash of moderate quakes shook the south end of the Salton Sea Sunday, and the largest quakes were felt from Orange County and San Diego, including the Rancho Bernardo/Poway area, ...

A series of small earthquakes expanded into a rash of moderate quakes at the south end of the Salton Sea Sunday, and the largest quakes were felt from Orange County and San Diego east into Arizona.