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.

Professor Göran Ekström tracks incidents like landslides and glacier collapse using tools once used only to monitor ...

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 ...

Whenever there's a series of destructive or notable earthquakes, scientists get asked the same question: Are earthquakes becoming more frequent? Over the past three months, multiple large earthquakes ...

Dust filled the air in Pausa, Peru, about 46 miles (74km) from the earthquake's epicentre At least three people have been injured and buildings have been damaged after an earthquake struck Peru, local ...

More than two years after an earthquake rattled the Garden State, a group of researchers are continuing to unravel its unusual nature, officially naming a previously unmapped fault where the quake ...

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