Only minimal amounts of untapped oil and gas resources remain in the historic Los Angeles fossil fuel production basin, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). New estimates released by ...

Los Angeles sits above an enormous bowl of sediment ... The desert megacity of Tehran in Iran also sits atop a geologic basin filled with river sediments, and there is growing concern about ...

But in the Los Angeles Basin, some residents felt nothing at ... In Pasadena, about 95 miles southwest of the quake’s epicenter, U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Morgan Page felt nothing ...

A 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Malibu on Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ... along the northern edge of the Los Angeles basin. Seismologist Lucy Jones clarified ...

Geology-induced complications Los Angeles ... Put another way, imagine the Los Angeles basin as a giant bowl of jelly – the dense rocky mountains and underlying rock make up the bowl, while ...