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.
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 ...