Two separate 4.5-magnitude earthquakes occurred within 45 miles of Kodiak on Thursday and Friday, among almost a dozen near ...

Geologists are closely monitoring Mount Spurr in the Aleutian Arc of Alaska, USA, after continued volcanic unrest. The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) monitoring the situation says that an ...

Beneath Alaska’s breathtaking landscapes and pristine wilderness lies one of the most geologically active regions on the ...

This volcanic arc delineates the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. A subduction zone, composed of the deep Aleutian Trench coupled with a landward line of volcanoes ...

'Myers, J.D., B.D. Marsh, C.D. Frost and J.A. Linton, 2001, Petrologic constraints on the spatial distribution of crustal magma chambers, Atka Volcanic Center ...

With their close proximity to Japan, the Aleutian Islands seemed especially prone to an attack. Stretching westward into the Pacific Ocean, the chain of roughly 150 islands lay just 750 miles away ...