Researchers studying a massive landslide in Alaska have detected strange seasonal seismic pulses caused by water freezing and ...
Nine Alaska tsunami detection stations will stay online through January after the University of Alaska stepped in with emergency funding, but their long-term future remains uncertain.
“Losing nine seismic monitoring stations can provide a really big geographic gap, and then it may take minutes for other seismic monitoring stations that are located very far away, for the seismic ...
In Alaska, a federal grant that funded seismic data collection in order to warn people about tsunamis is being cancelled. Experts say cuts like this could make tsunami warnings less reliable.
The United States is not expected to experience any tsunamis after a powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan on Dec. 8, officials said.
JUNEAU, Alaska -- A reported 7.5 magnitude earthquake off the Alaska Peninsula on Monday prompted tsunami warnings for a vast swath of communities, leading some schools to evacuate and send students ...
A tsunami advisory has now been cancelled after it was issued for the western Aleutian Islands in Alaska shortly after a large aftershock hit far eastern Russia on Thursday morning, local time. The ...
A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake has triggered a tsunami warning along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska's southern coast, prompting communities to order residents to higher ground. The tremor struck at ...
KUOW Photo/John Ryan It was just before midnight when the tsunami that started with an earthquake in Alaska’s Prince William Sound reached Washington state. The year was 1964. At La Push, a 7-foot ...