Carl Tape's midsummer trek through ghost towns and newspaper clippings brings new insights to an earthquake nearly erased by time.

The fault has moved the curbs as much as a handspan, around 18 centimeters, since the time they were installed, up to 60 ...

Welcome to your weekly seismic update from across the state, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ...

As the name suggests, a branch fault is a minor fault that branches off from a major fault. In the US, the 2002 magnitude 7.9 Denali earthquake that struck Alaska originated on a branch fault.

How regional fault lines led to such a destructive earthquake in Turkey, Syria Tens of thousands of people died in a pair of cataclysmic earthquakes.

The movement of this fault line resulted in the 2004 India Earthquake that led to a tsunami claiming at least 230,000 lives. This has been the list of 11 biggest fault lines in the world.

FAIRBANKS — The Denali Fault earthquake only rumbled for about 3 minutes when it shook Interior Alaska a decade ago, but some of the reverberations of that powerful seismic event are still being ...

Other well-known strike-slip fault lines include the San Andreas Fault in California and the Anatolian Fault in Turkey, both of which have caused major earthquakes in the past.

Scientists warn 1,000-foot ‘mega-tsunami’ could wipe part of America off the map Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the mainland West Coast would be at risk if an earthquake erupts along the ...

It was only a matter of time before the region surrounding Turkey and Syria experienced "the big one," according to experts. Tens of thousands of people died in a pair of cataclysmic earthquakes ...

When scientists think of the next big earthquake, they tend to assume it will stem from a major fault line. But now, experts warn it could originate on small, 'branch' faults we don't pay much ...