Why Alaska’s recent 7.3 earthquake has caught the attention of scientists - Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s ...

Scientists say an earthquake happens in Alaska once every ten minutes. AP. Probably the most well-known Alaskan earthquake was the Good Friday earthquake of 1964.

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 ...

Posted by IRIS Earthquake Science on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. The Alaska Earthquake Center recorded “very strong shaking” in places such as Sand Point, Cold Bay and Perryville, ...

One Sunday more than 20 years ago, Natalia Ruppert held her 1-year-old son a bit tighter in her arms. A friend’s house had started shaking with an intensity she had ...

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

Ruppert thinks being a seismologist in Alaska was perhaps an advantage for a woman in science 30 years ago, a time when her colleagues were mostly men. “There was no discrimination here — I ...

A 7.0 earthquake just eight miles north of Los Angeles, with millions of people within its reach, would likely have been devastating. The estimated 25-mile depth of Alaska's big quake might have ...

Figure 1 of Plafker’s Science paper, “Tectonic Deformation Associated with the 1964 Alaska Earthquake,” vol. 148, pp. 1675-1687. The quake is officially given a date of March 28 because it was 3:36 ...

The hearing was held on the 50th anniversary of the 9.2 magnitude Alaska earthquake. the most powerful ever recorded in the U.S. Science experts assessed recent advancements and new technologies ...

The earthquake hit at 10:12 p.m. local time (2:12 a.m. ET on July 22, or 06:12 UTC) about 65 miles (105 kilometers) southeast of Perryville, Alaska, and 528 miles southwest of Anchorage.

In 1900, Alaska was home to Native people in scattered villages and camps and recently arrived miners who scraped the creeks for gold. Many of the 60,000 souls on the rivers and hills of Alaska ...