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The earthquake was centered near King Cove at a depth of 18.8 kilometers (about 11.7 miles). The USGS said it received zero ...
And while the advisory assured that the “likelihood of an eruption continues to gradually decline,” the 11,000-foot-tall volcano remains at an “elevated state of unrest,” meaning that an “explosive ...
The Great Alaska Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the United States. Its violent tremors reshaped ...
Despite a decline in volcanic activity over the past two months, Spurr is at a yellow alert level, indicating that activity ...
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. It was a 9.2 tremor that killed ...
Swarm' of Moderate to Strong Earthquakes Hit Alaska's Western Aleutian Islands Without Damage AMCHITKA ISLAND, Alaska (AP) — A series of moderate to strong earthquakes that struck Alaska's ...
A new study by geoscientists at Virginia Tech, published in ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’, estimates a 15 ...
New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...
The 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake would have a profound effect on the career of the Russia-born Ruppert, who after 30 years at the Alaska Earthquake Center in Fairbanks is now moving on to a new ...
A massive earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could trigger a devastating mega-tsunami, threatening Alaska, Hawaii, ...