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The giant earthquake was recorded at 12:37 p.m. local time, southeast of Sand Point, a community located on Popof Island in ...
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.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck off Alaska's Kodiak Island early Tuesday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large swath of the state's coast ...
Forecasters canceled tsunami warnings for Alaska and the US and Canadian west coasts Tuesday after an earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska stoked fears of damaging waves. The tsunami alerts were ...
Wednesday's magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...
A tsunami warning issued late Saturday after a strong earthquake off the Alaska Peninsula has now been lifted. The magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit roughly 60 miles south of Sand Point at 10:48 p.m ...
Saturday night’s tsunami warning issued for the Gulf of Alaska coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cook Inlet was downgraded and later canceled, but not before many people evacuated low-lying ...
Tsunami alerts canceled after 8.2-magnitude earthquake off Alaska coast sparked concerns. Scientists say a magnitude-8 or higher earthquake only occurs once a year anywhere in the world, on average ...
Alaska Confusion surrounding Alaska's emergency tsunami alert sparks concerns over public confidence Alerts extend to people in locations as far away as Anchorage, causing uncertainty and concern ...
The 7.8 magnitude quake struck Tuesday at 10:12 p.m. local time and was centered in the ocean about 65 miles south-southeast of Perryville, Alaska. A tsunami warning that was issued for much of ...
Kodiak Island is located about 200 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, which was not under a tsunami threat. Initially, the USGS said the earthquake was a magnitude 8.2.
The tsunami alerts were canceled "because additional information and analysis have better defined the threat," said the National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska. Small tsunami waves of ...