India, Feb. 23 -- The seismologists who studied this earthquake discovered that shallow earthquakes produce stronger ground shaking than deep earthquakes, which have the same magnitude. The earthquake ...

Nine seismic stations in Alaska are set to go dark this month, leaving tsunami forecasters without important data used to determine whether an earthquake will send a destructive wave barreling toward ...

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Sept. 18 off Russia's Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region briefly triggered a tsunami advisory for Alaska's Aleutian Islands. However, the advisory for Alaska has ...

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Far out along the rocky cliffs of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, seismic technology works to detect tremors that could cause a devastating tsunami. But now nine of those stations are expected to be ...

Earthquake today: Massive 6.3 magnitude quake jolts near Alaska; no tsunami warning issued ...

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck near ⁠Alaska ​on Monday, the ​US ​Geological Survey ⁠said. The quake ‌was at a depth of ⁠1 ⁠km (0.62 ⁠mile), ‌USGS said. No ​Tsunami ‌warning was ‌issued ​by ​the ​US ...

At present, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information and Services (INCOIS) receives earthquake signals and processes its ...

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Tsunami Warning and Preparedness explores the advances made and challenges that still remain in tsunami detection and preparedness. The book describes areas of research and development that would ...