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A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska on the afternoon of July 16, sparking immediate tsunami ...
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska on July 16, 2025. While significant, the 1964 Prince William Sound ...
Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska's southern coast ordered their residents to higher ground after a powerful ...
At 5:36 p.m. AST on Good Friday 60 years ago, a small crack formed about 16 miles beneath the ground near Prince William Sound on the south coast of Alaska. Over the next four minutes, the rupture ...
A recent 7.3 magnitude earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings, stirring memories of the 1958 ...
A HUGE 7.3 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Alaska. A tsunami warning is now in place after the tremors ...
A tsunami warning has been canceled for south Alaska a couple of hours after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday. Newsweek's live blog is closed.
On March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake – one of the world’s strongest ever recorded earthquakes – occurred between the southern tip of Kodiak Island and Cordova, Alaska.
The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake and Alaska's Rat Islands Earthquake the following year were among the 10 worst worldwide since 1900, the USGS noted in 2019.
The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964, Alaska's most powerful earthquake on record, originated under Prince William Sound. It was a magnitude of 9.2 and marks the second-largest earthquake ever ...
After the worst earthquake in North American history shocked Anchorage, Alaska, the city leaned on an unlikely savior to see it through the disaster. The post How the First Female Newscaster in ...
Abrupt earthquake-triggered land changes are not a new idea. The earliest written accounts of great earthquakes causing the land to rise or fall are from China and date back to nearly 4,000 years ago.