A 6.6-magnitude earthquake was reported in Wallis and Futuna, on Thursday (July 24), according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was centered in Mata-Utu at a depth of 314.2 ...

Why Alaska’s recent 7.3 earthquake has caught the attention of scientists - Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s ...

Scientists say an earthquake happens in Alaska once every ten minutes. AP. Probably the most well-known Alaskan earthquake was the Good Friday earthquake of 1964.

Science Alaska earthquake that prompted tsunami evacuations, but no big wave, may offer clue in scientific debate . By Morgan Krakow. Published: July 23, 2020.

Fifty years ago today, at 5:36 p.m., a magnitude 9.2 earthquake grabbed hold of south-central Alaska and started shaking. It didn’t cease for more than four minutes and was felt as far away as ...

A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake shook the southern region of Alaska in July 2021. Scientists believe the quake may have turned up more than 30 new dinosaur footprints from three different species.

A set of earthquake monitors now installed across Alaska offers abundant possibilities for scientific research. But they could soon disappear. Scientists, lawmakers and federal agencies are ...

Alaska’s surface is wrinkled with active fault lines. The state’s southern coast follows the seam that separates the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, branching west from British Columbia ...

A 7.0 earthquake just eight miles north of Los Angeles, with millions of people within its reach, would likely have been devastating. The estimated 25-mile depth of Alaska's big quake might have ...

Pat Branson, mayor of Kodiak, the major city of Alaska's Kodiak Island, told CNN the magnitude 8.2 earthquake was the strongest in the area since the 1960's. The quake triggered the area's third ...

In 1900, Alaska was home to Native people in scattered villages and camps and recently arrived miners who scraped the creeks for gold. Many of the 60,000 souls on the rivers and hills of Alaska ...