The gas was off, but the water still worked. The damages were minimal: fallen books and a few broken plates. The day was March 27, 1964, and they had just lived through the Great Alaska Earthquake.

The Great Alaska Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the United States. Its violent tremors reshaped Alaska’s landscape and American earthquake preparedness forever.

The strongest earthquake ever recorded, a magnitude 9.5, struck Chile's southern coast in 1960. Below is a list and details ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For the first time, a new computer model details the path of destruction wrought by the enormous 1964 Alaska earthquake, and could help researchers better predict future ...

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 ...

The earthquake appeared to be the strongest since the 9.0 magnitude earthquake off Japan in March 2011 that caused a massive ...

This week, Alaska commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Great Alaska Earthquake. The calamity destroyed whole towns, took lives and still stands as the largest earthquake to ever rock North ...

Book review: The 1964 earthquake, the strongest ever recorded in North America, remains a pivotal event in Alaska’s history, but its impact on the science of geology was even more significant.

Local seismographs registered the energy associated with the shockwave from one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.

When Alaska was hit by a devastating earthquake in 1964, it was the voice of Genie Chance — a journalist, wife and mother — that held the state together in the aftermath.