The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday took steps to increase recovery of critical minerals, used in everything from ...

Was that an earthquake you just felt or merely a big truck rumbling by? You don't have to wonder thanks to the U.S.

The 1.6 magnitude earthquake occurred west of Morris Plains at around 5:40 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey's ...

The alerts rely on detecting fast-moving P-waves, which precede the more destructive S-waves during an earthquake. If enough ...

A swarm of earthquakes under the largest volcano in the Cascade Mountain Range has some people wondering if it's rumbling ...

Hundreds of small earthquakes were detected at Mount Rainier on Tuesday in the largest such swarm at the active stratovolcano since 2009, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The swarm began ...