As you fly over central and western Kansas, you’ll notice distinctive circles in the agricultural fields below. Some might interpret these patterns as evidence of extraterrestrial activity, but ...

Officials with the Kansas Geological Survey told legislators Monday they suspect recent earthquakes were caused by oil and gas production practices. Rex Buchanan, interim director of the Kansas ...

A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, along with staff from three field offices of the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Division of Water Resources will be in ...

Jay Kalbas has been named as the new director of the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas. A longtime executive of ExxonMobil will become the new director of the state’s top geological ...

TOPEKA — The Kansas Geological Survey reported Wednesday groundwater levels in the High Plains Aquifer could be sustained for at least one decade in moisture-imperiled areas of western Kansas through ...

Kansas Geological Survey is expanding library and laboratory space at the University of Kansas for research on rock cores. This image is of preserved core brought up from more than 3,660 feet ...

It has been a hot topic of discussion over the last few days. Rather than waking up to an alarm, some of us woke up to an earthquake. “We’re just sleeping. We wake up. Oh, it’s another earthquake.” ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – You’ve likely felt one of the recent quakes in Wichita this month. There have been more than 10. The Kansas Geological Survey says evidence shows they may be man-made. “If it is ...

The disposal of waste saltwater from hydraulic fracturing could be to blame for a sharp increase in earthquakes in south-central Kansas, according to a geophysicist with the Kansas Geological Survey.

A cluster of earthquakes with epicenters in Wichita has rattled south-central Kansas, including a fifth that the U.S. Geological Survey recorded as a 3.9 magnitude. The Wichita Eagle reports that ...