A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Mudslides are dangerous torrents that are usually referred to by geologists and first responders as debris flows. They have been particularly lethal in parts of California where landscape, climate, we ...

NASA scientists used satellite measurements to map out local subsidence and uplift across the Golden State, which plays into ...

Residents in some parts of the Sonoma Valley could face up to nine hours of traffic trying to evacuate on limited, outdated ...

Rogers Creek Fault is Waiting By David Bolling With the nation’s focus on the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles, the last ...

The atmospheric river storm hitting Northern California is set to bring heavy rain to the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, potentially triggering flooding. In the mountains, the National Weather ...

The National Weather Service has updated the flood watch, which will be in place until 10 p.m. Sunday night. The flood watch ...

Bernard Hubbard didn’t set out to map minerals. As a geology PhD student at UB, he used satellite and airborne instruments to study volcanoes from above. Later, as a research geologist with the United ...

OAXACA, MEXICO—According to a Newsweek report, Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of McGill University and his colleagues spotted the remains of more than 1,000 structures built by the Zapotec in ...

Sonoma County and the City of Sonoma are asking residents to take a short survey to help identify community ... for disaster preparedness in Sonoma Valley and beyond. The Hazard Mitigation Plan ...

THE practical problems involved in the interpretation of geological and topographical maps are here dealt with in a manner likely to appeal to students of geology and civil engineering.