Latest United States Geological Survey Stories
LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, has announced that it has provided the US Geological Survey with a turnkey solution that allowed the agency to officially turn over the 1.710 to 1.755GHz spectrum in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to LGS, the solution involved evaluation, design, installation, testing and user training without disruption to the existing network. The US Geological Survey (USGS) used the Alcatel-Lucent MDR-8000 radio product with the latest release offering gigabit...
A scientific expedition this fall will map the unexplored Arctic seafloor where the U.S. and Canada may have sovereign rights over natural resources such as oil and gas and control over activities such as mining.Both countries will use the resulting data to establish the outer limits of the continental shelf, according to the criteria set out in the Convention on the Law of the Sea. The extended continental shelf, the seafloor and subsoil beyond 200 nautical miles from shore that meet those...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Colin Finan of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, +1-202-691-4321, colin.finan@wilsoncenter.org Federal Research Programs Must Be Realigned to Meet the Environmental and Economic Challenges of the Future WASHINGTON, July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an article recently published in the journal Science, a group of former senior federal officials call for the establishment of an independent Earth Systems Science Agency (ESSA) to meet the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Geological Survey on Thursday reported a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Russian Siberia, 3930 miles north/northeast of Moscow, at 12:25 p.m. Friday local time (2325 GMT). The temblor was 125 miles northeast of Il'pyrskiy, Russia at a depth of roughly 7.8 miles, the survey said on its Web site. Russia's Itar-Tass news agency, monitored by the BBC, said there were no reports of damage or casualties, according to a seismic research team in the Kamchatka...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey on Wednesday released new online maps of the San Francisco Bay area that show the region's geologic history and active earthquake faults.The interactive digital maps are designed to help the public understand the risks of living in earthquake country and make preparations for potential disasters, USGS scientists said at the 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference."By releasing these maps, we're trying to wake people up," said Russ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A well drilled 300 feet deep to study fluctuations in groundwater has proven extremely useful for monitoring major earthquakes around the world. The well is especially sensitive because it's drilled into an underground rock formation of granite with fractures that all run the same way, channeling more water into and out of the well, said Evelyn Roeloffs of the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash. Roeloffs, who has studied the well...
