The new USGS National Seismic Hazard Model released Tuesday shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur in the United States and updates a previous version released in 2018.

While the lines, colors and points on the Montana earthquake map look scary, the USGS reports that the 5.8-magnitude earthquake wasn’t strong enough cause structural damages to buildings.

Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated map from the U.S. Geological Survey. The map is the first to ...

Color-coded map shows where ‘damaging’ earthquakes are most likely to occur by: Amber Coakley Posted: Jan 18, 2024 / 09:34 AM PST Updated: Jan 18, 2024 / 01:34 PM PST ...

For the first time ever, manmade earthquakes will be mapped the same way natural ones are. The U.S. Geological Survey released a new map on Monday, which identifies areas of the country where ...

It just got way, way easier to search and browse the US Geological Survey’s collection of historical topographic maps, thanks to a new online map viewer. These maps—more than 178,000 of them ...

The new USGS National Seismic Hazard Model released Tuesday shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur in the United States and updates a previous version released in 2018.

The digital map—which shows the moon's features at a scale of 1:5,000,000—was put together using six regional maps made during the Apollo era, in combination with information collected during ...

The map depicts where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur using seismic studies, historical geological data and the latest in data-collection technology, which helped researchers ...

The color-coded map shows a range of earthquake probability across the U.S. Well known high-risk areas, such as California and Alaska, are coded in dark red, denoting the highest risk.

Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated map from the U.S. Geological Survey. The map is the first to ...