Scientists have developed a system that can estimate the magnitude and location of a major earthquake almost immediately ...

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.

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

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook the remote waters southwest of Nikolski, Alaska, on September 3, striking with enough force ...

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 ...

Senator Dan S. Sullivan, a Republican, faces former Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat, in one of the most closely watched Senate races of the midterms. A crowd of candidates piled into the ...

A violent phreatomagmatic eruption rocked the Taal Volcano in Batangas, Philippines, on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, sending shockwaves through the region and generating sizable tsunami waves careening ...