Nearly a mile deep, the Pacific Ocean volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only discovered its existence in the 1980s.

A Virginia Tech geoscience professor has delivered a study that examines the risk of major coastal flooding in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...

California has seven active volcanoes, each with a unique eruption history, categorized by type and threat level. The USGS monitors these volcanoes, providing information to authorities and the ...

Efforts to defang the California Coastal Commission could have a significant impact on Southern California’s quest for water security and fire safety. The Commission has been a barrier to ...

The resulting earthquake could be a devastating magnitude 9.0, and the subsequent tsunami could be 100 feet high, overwhelming coastal cities ... earthquakes and volcanoes, declined to comment ...