A 3.5-magnitude earthquake was reported in Alaska on Sunday (July 6), according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake was reported in New Zealand on Monday (July 7), according to the United States Geological Survey.

Alaska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, with more large quakes than the other 49 states combined. Southern Alaska has a high risk of earthquakes due to tectonic plates sliding past each other ...

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 Miami ...

Alaska experiences more earthquakes than any other state. And while many of the earthquakes shake unpopulated parts of the Last Frontier, a group of scientists is keeping tabs on the tremors.

The Alaska Earthquake Center has an overall budget of roughly $7 million. In the past, the state budget has contributed to the earthquake center’s monitoring operations, West said.

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck near Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday morning crumbled roads and splintered buildings, sent residents scurrying for cover and triggered a tsunami warning for a ...

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11-30-18 Alaska earthquake. Charles Wohlforth. Charles Wohlforth was an Anchorage Daily News reporter from 1988 to 1992 and wrote a regular opinion column from 2015 to 2019.

Shaking from the large earthquake that shuddered through Anchorage, Alaska last week was strong enough to turn smooth asphalt roads into broken, jagged depressions of rubble. But within just a few ...

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake triggered a brief tsunami advisory for southern Alaska late Saturday, but the advisory was canceled about an hour later, monitoring bodies reported. The earthquake was fe… ...