The region’s history includes a magnitude 8.6 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands in 1957 and a magnitude 8.7 earthquake near the Rat Islands in 1965.

Based on the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake, DOWN TO CHANCE follows radio reporter Genie Chance as she broadcasts live during ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory reported continued volcanic activity at three Alaska volcanoes on Sept. 9, 2026. Great Sitkin ...

On July 9, 1958, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake triggered a colossal rockfall into Alaska’s Lituya Bay, sending roughly 90 million tons of rock plunging into the water. The impact produced a wave that ...

From serving in the Asiatic-Pacific theater in World War II to stabilizing the Exxon Valdez supertanker, the Chief has a storied history on the Columbia River.

The quiet-spoken Canadian prime minister has spoken unutterable truths ...

At the graveyard of the Pacific rests the last known surviving landing ship medium of World War II in the world — the Salvage Chief. After having spent a decade at Tongue Point, the Salvage Chief ...

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources has released a new report modeling a tsunami scenario for an ...

Volcanoes without active unrest are typically designated “green” on the observatory’s color-coded alert spectrum, but ...

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

A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck near a remote stretch of the Aleutian Islands early Monday morning, along the ...

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