Sea ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean is at one of its lowest levels on record, yet there's no unanimity on when that ice will ...

Lasting only a minute, it shook Pioneer Square with vigor and rattled office and convention centers from Seattle to Olympia ...

Electrochemical seismic sensors have gained prominence as a robust alternative to traditional electromechanical instruments in seismology. By utilising electrochemical reactions to transduce ...

The most widespread way is through Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), which sends loud alerts to all cellphones. If an ...

The U.S. Geological Survey, along with five universities including UC Berkeley, recently launched a plan to install over six thousand seismic sensors in civilian homes and classrooms to detect ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tuesday marks 33 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake. For many who were around when the 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit, they remember where they were and exactly what they were doing ...

NAPA, Calif. (KGO) -- The second anniversary of the Napa Valley Earthquake is next week and scientists are still trying to learn as much as they can about a quake that was much more destructive than ...

The current shale revolution was thrust into motion by a few key components: the ability to perform directional drilling (allowing companies to drill horizontally), and hydraulic fracturing (a process ...

Yellowstone is moving, but there's another supervolcano that is also showing signs that it's active in the U.S. It's cooling ...

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, which monitors earthquakes and volcanoes in Washington and Oregon, installed a sensor ...