A earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 struck in the remote Aleutian Island in southwest Alaska on the morning of ...

Michigan State University researchers are deploying ocean-floor seismometers in the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone to investigate the fault responsible for the deadly 1946 tsunami and evaluate ...

Eighty years ago, a massive tsunami devastated parts of Hawaii, Alaska, Washington and Oregon following an earthquake off the ...

On this day in 1899, a massive 8.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Yakutat, Alaska, and was felt for hundreds of miles.

A massive collapse high in the mountains in glacier terrain, followed by massive flooding — this is the setting of the recent horrific flood along the Nepal border, but it ...

The earthquake had a depth of about 35 kilometers (22 miles) and was classified as reviewed by USGS seismologists. Credit: Charles R. Peterson, Wikimedia Commons via Flickr. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake ...

A flash flood that struck Nepal last week has left over 1,000 people dead, and thousands more are missing. A landslide that was first thought to be the result of an earthquake actually looks to have ...

Alaska’s marquee elections saw major gyrations just ahead of Monday night’s deadline for candidates to withdraw, as some contenders quit to give their party a better chance in November while others ...

It has been an active stretch of seismic activity for the Pacific Ring of Fire over the last few hours. Beginning Friday night, several earthquakes fired off along the active region from California to ...

Kristen Cook, a geomorphologist at Grenoble Alpes University, is a night owl. When a phone call from a colleague woke her up at 10:45 a.m. Central European Time on Wednesday, 26 August, she had ...

Granada’s Alhendín region has experienced more than 40 earthquakes in a single day. Several tremors were felt by residents, leading to property damage and forced evacuations. Authorities are ...