Five-year-old Charlotte “Sharkey” Schaefers drowned 21 years ago after saving a 3-year-old boy in a poorly maintained and ...

Gov. Josh Green, M.D., signed four measures into law on Thursday to strengthen Hawaiʻi’s public safety through the enactment ...

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

Three California volcanoes, including Mt. Shasta and Lassen Peak (also known as Mt. Lassen) and Long Valley Caldera near Mammoth, are listed at very high threat potential, according to scientists at ...

The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) has launched an expanded version of its disaster preparedness program aimed at turning ...

Namely, the underground magma movement that was transpiring 6 to 9 miles beneath the volcanic system ... signs and improving hazard assessment in vulnerable regions like the southern Aegean," she said ...

Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.

Hurricane Helene lasted only a few days in September 2024, but it altered the landscape of the Southeastern U.S. in ways that will affect the hazards residents face far into the future.

The recent death of a bison at Grand Prismatic Spring is an emphatic example of the danger posed by thermal areas in ...

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Volcanology is the study of the generation and movement of molten rock on Earth and other planetary bodies, primarily through volcanoes and volcanic eruptions. This encompasses the generation of ...

"We estimated the seismic hazard and risk for that region," says Kaye Shedlock, who worked with China when she headed the USGS's hazard and risk program. "It's riddled with large faults, to ...