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But, as geologist Iain Stewart pointed out, "shale gas isn't just found under the sea, miles away from our homes it's under our own backyards".

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.7 was reported Wednesday evening near Pacifica, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A magnitude-5.7 earthquake shook central Chile on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway in the capital but apparently causing no major damage.

A magnitude-5.7 earthquake shook central Chile on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway in the capital but apparently causing no major damage.

In a darkened room in Pavia, Italy, a jumble of stubby arrows spreads out across a large screen like a swarm of ants on the march.

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at a mild magnitude of 4.6. The epicenter of the quake was around 22 miles off the coast of Lima, and occurred at a depth of around 38 miles .

Continental drift was the first attempt to explain why similar animal and plant fossils are found on different continents.

A small earthquake hit Peru at 1:40 p.m. local time. The earthquake was located about 15 miles off the coast of Callao, Peru and about 38 miles underground.

California state legislators on Tuesday told regulators and oil industry lobbyists they wanted more information about the use of acid to increase flows in wells in a technique that is used more often in the state than the controversial fracking method.

Two species of invasive Asian carp may be able to spawn in more Great Lakes tributaries than previously thought, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report on Tuesday.

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook buildings in Peru's capital on Tuesday, Peru's geological survey and Reuters witnesses said.

The uppermost reaches of the ocean could be rapidly scanned in groundbreaking high detail using acoustic techniques, researchers say.

Signs warning people of the possibility of the presence of harmful blue-green algae hang on the fence at the entrance to the swimming beach at Lake Macbride State Park.

BEIRUT: The Parliament's Justice and Administration Committee Monday approved the establishment of a new geology faculty at the Lebanese University.

The Cadillac Hotel in Seattle suffered severe damage in the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake.

Dozens of beachgoers were ordered out of the water and away from a northwest Indiana beach on Monday afternoon after some swimmers were coming out covered in a slick, slimy substance.

London: An investor consortium led by private equity firm Warburg Pincus on Monday agreed to provide USD 600 million in equity capital to Delonex Energy, the firm floated by former Cairn India chief executive Rahul Dhir.

Published in Geology , new research led by Monash University geologists has detected the first evidence that a passive margin in the Atlantic ocean is becoming active.

One of the things about the environmental Left that drives me most nuts is its resistance to reason and empirical fact.

Bellingham geologist Dave Tucker stands by a boulder about 100 yards upstream from the Ridley Creek trail ford on the middle fork Nooksack of the Nooksack River in this photo taken on Wednesday, June 5, 2013.