Alaska experiences more earthquakes than any other state. ... So in 1987, the Alaska Earthquake Center was founded to monitor and research what happens when one of these events strikes.

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Alaska Peninsula on Wednesday, as reported by the German Research Centre for ...

More than small 230 earthquakes have hit parts of Alaska since Friday, when a 7.0-magnitude tremor knocked out power, ripped open roads and splintered buildings near Anchorage.

If the magnitude 8.2 estimate holds, the quake may be the most powerful in North America since a magnitude 8.7 earthquake in Alaska, Brian McNoldy, senior research associate at University of ...

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

The earthquake was measured at 7.9 on Tuesday morning. — -- A 7.9 magnitude earthquake rattled the southern coast of Alaska early Tuesday and initially triggered fears of a tsunami in ...

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 ...

A set of earthquake monitors now installed across Alaska offers abundant possibilities for scientific research. But they could soon disappear. Scientists, lawmakers and federal agencies are ...