In a striking event early Monday, a powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake shook a remote area near the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. The earthquake occurred at 5:19 ...

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

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.

Where it hit: The quake’s epicenter was about 166 km west of Nikolski, Alaska, in the Fox Islands of the Aleutian chain.

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With glacial flooding last month in Juneau, a landslide-driven tsunami last year in Tracy Arm, deadly landslides in Wrangell ...

Highly anticipated new modeling that shows the effects a tsunami from an Alaskan megaquake would have on the Washington coast affirms what local emergency management officials have been saying for ...

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After a prolonged period of uncertainty, NOAA has reestablished an essential network of nine seismic monitoring stations in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, ensuring that the area does not lose its ...