The U.S. Geological Survey released maps showing areas in the central and eastern U.S. at risk for potential ground shaking in 2017 due to human activity and natural earthquakes. Around four ...

For the first time, new USGS maps identify potential ground-shaking hazards from both human-induced and natural earthquakes. In the past, USGS maps only identified natural earthquake hazards.

A new USGS map identifies potential ground-shaking hazards from both human-induced and natural earthquakes for the first time. In the past, these maps only identified natural earthquake hazards.

Study finds more than 140 million Americans could experience the ground-shaking effects of a quake, twice ... senior science advisor for earthquake and geologic hazards at the U.S. Geological ...

Of all 50 states, 37 face the potential of damaging ground shaking from earthquakes, the latest National Seismic Hazard Model shows. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Share this: ...

The U.S. Geological has released it's 2016 earthquake forecast, and it looks like more bad news for the Sooner State. For the first time, USGS mapsidentify potential ground-shaking hazards ...

Recently identified fault rupture hazard zones cross densely populated areas of the Puget Lowland. Scientists say there is a good chance of one or more of these faults rupturing within our ...

Forecasts of pipeline damage typically consider earthquake-induced ground failures like surface faulting, landslides, and liquefaction as separate key hazards. But a new methodology created by N ...

People can't be shaken to death by an earthquake. Some movies show scenes with the ground suddenly opening up and people falling into fiery pits, but this just doesn't happen in real life. The Effect ...

The son of an earthquake engineer, the 38-year old Luco earned a Ph.D. in civil engineering and now works at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) helping communities across the country upgrade their ...

A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the ...