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Japan was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on Thursday and officials have issued a “megaquake advisory” to residents.

Kilauea volcano, located along the southeastern shore of the Big Island of Hawaii, began erupting Wednesday morning at 4:44 local time.

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday the Permian Basin’s Wolfcamp shale and Bone Spring formation spanning parts of West Texas and eastern New Mexico hold the largest potential oil and gas resources ever discovered. Federal surveyors note the Bone Spring plays could offer roughly seven times the amount of oil as the Bakken shale in North Dakota.

The Department of Interior’s United States Geological Survey will survey the critical minerals that can be mined domestically.

A bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans is fighting to prevent the privatization of the ShakeAlert earthquake warning system and to preserve its federal funding.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has allocated 100 percent water deliveries to Central Valley water districts for the first time in a decade, as the 80-degree weather this weekend causes risk of rapid snowmelt flooding.

U.S. Geological Survey issued new reports stating that cyclical drought areas in California could be relieved by purifying the vast amounts of underground brackish (salty) water.

The U.S. Geological Survey put Southern California cities on an unusually high alert for a potential “big earthquake,” as an “earthquake storm” broke out near the Salton Sea late in the week.

People in seven states, from South Dakota to Texas, were awakened Saturday morning, September 3, by Oklahoma’s most powerful earthquake in recorded history. The 5.8 tremor was centered near Pawnee, Oklahoma. Several buildings sustained minor damage and there were no serious injuries. That we know.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Experts say a minor earthquake shook parts of far West Texas Tuesday.

An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale struck near Pawnee, Oklahoma on Saturday morning causing minor damage. The quake was felt as far away as Chicago.

A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Saturday morning in San Ramon, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:34 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 5.6 miles.

A series of 400 small earthquakes have rattled the East Bay city of San Ramon and the surrounding areas since October 13, breaking a 1990 record that had seen 350 rattlers in more than double the amount of time.

Mysterious tar balls have been appearing on Southern California beaches, and the phenomenon seems to be hitting individual beaches one after the other. The latest hit: Long Beach.

Malfunctions in the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) earthquake detection system in Northern California resulted in three false earthquake alarms in the past few days.

California’s Central Valley has long been disproportionately affected by the state’s severe drought.

The chance of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake striking California in the next 30 years has increased from 4.7 percent to 7 percent, according to a new forecast by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Northern California Wednesday afternoon, 25 miles southwest of Ferndale.