My wife and I enjoy hiking off trail and for our bushwhacking adventures, we use a paper topographic map, a compass and a handheld GPSR.

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spearheads Volcano Awareness Month each January on the Island of Hawaii. This year, in addition to in-person talks and walks around the island, we hosted an art ...

A minor earthquake shook the coast of Santa Barbara late Thursday night. The tremor, measured at a magnitude of 2.8, was reported by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to have occurred at ...

Good afternoon and happy Friday readers. We’ve made it to the end of another week and the first month of the year! With the Trump administration’s border tariffs on Canada and Mexico set to go into ...

Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread ...

The earthquake was a 2.0 magnitude quake around four miles east southeast of Elgin with a depth of three kilometers, according to the USGS. According to the Richter magnitude scal ...

ALERTCalifornia sponsored the lidar data acquisition, which was collected by NV5 between January 21- January 22, 2025. The derived products can be used to analyze the fire's impact and provide ...

Hubbard, who first joined the USGS as a postdoc, is part of the agency’s Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI).

NV5 announced that lidar-derived data of the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire burn areas are now freely available to the public courtesy of ...

Japanese authorities urge evacuation as a massive sinkhole in Saitama grows, hampering rescue efforts to free an elderly truck driver.

USGS has confirmed a 4.5 magnitude earthquake near Falls City, tied for fifth-biggest in Texas since the start of 2024, ...