3 days ago · Part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, the USGS began in 1879 to study the nation’s lands and resources. Today, we monitor, analyze, and predict Earth’s changing systems.

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6 days ago · A local county in western Nevada said residents received a false alert for a 5.9 magnitude earthquake.

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6 days ago · Many residents in Northern California got a MyShake alert Thursday morning about a 5.9 earthquake in western Nevada, but the USGS confirms it was a false alarm and there was no …

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6 days ago · An alert that Nevada had been rocked by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake early Thursday sent phones buzzing briefly before the U.S. Geological Survey quickly deleted the warning from its …

The director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is responsible for direction and leadership of the agency. [2] Within the director's office are the deputy director, who assists the director in coordination …

6 days ago · Yaareb Altaweel, a geophysicist with the survey’s National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, said the USGS was still trying to understand why its automatic ShakeAlert early ...

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