Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Chile on Thursday at a depth of 49 kilometers, according to the GFZ German Research Centre ...

While the Gulf is far less prone to tsunamis than the Pacific, experts say it’s not entirely out of the question.

Communities along a 700-mile (1,127-km) stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered residents to higher ground after a ...

An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 on the Richter Scale rattled Alaska in the early hours of Thursday (local time).

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Alaska Peninsula, on Wednesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

Carl Tape's midsummer trek through ghost towns and newspaper clippings brings new insights to an earthquake nearly erased by time.

Calling it an exercise in imagination, seismologist Carl Tape stopped at the site of Dome City and the former townsite of ...

Long before humans developed seismographs and early warning systems for earthquakes, numerous animal species were already displaying remarkable abilities to detect these natural disasters.

Their research of geologic evidence from the last six to seven thousand years indicates that 11 great earthquakes have happened approximately every 200 to 800 years in the Pacific Northwest. The last ...

She first studied earthquakes in Turkey and Iran, another seismic hotspot, and arrived at the Alaska Earthquake Center to do the same, until the discovery of Barry Arm shifted her focus.

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 ...