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A lightly populated stretch of Alaska ’s southern coast was under a tsunami warning Wednesday after a strong earthquake was ...
A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 initially triggered a tsunami warning for the southern Alaska ...
Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered their residents to higher ground after a powerful ...
I’ve got liquid smoke and barbecue sauce and pickles ... broken on the floor,” the manager of the local general store said.
Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...
A tsunami warning that was later downgraded was issued for several coastal communities after the earthquake struck south of ...
The giant earthquake was recorded at 12:37 p.m. local time, southeast of Sand Point, a community located on Popof Island in ...
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 ...
Earthquakes in Alaska are part of everyday life due to the state being extremely seismically active. So in 1987, the Alaska Earthquake Center was founded to monitor and research what happens when ...
Ground shaking was strongest in Sand Point, with reports of "objects flying out of the pantry and off of shelves," noted the ...
While no one died during the earthquake on Nov. 3, 2002, many scientists became interested in a huge event that intersected three Alaska highways and was somewhat easy to study.