Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered residents to higher ground ...

The giant earthquake was recorded at 12:37 p.m. local time, southeast of Sand Point, a community located on Popof Island in ...

Alaska’s then-largest town of Fairbanks, population 8,000, on Aug. 3, 1904, a few weeks before a magnitude 7.3 earthquake shook the buildings. (Lorenzo E. Robinson / from the R.C. Force Papers ...

On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m. local time, the ground below southern Alaska ruptured with unprecedented force. Measuring 9.2 on the moment magnitude scale, the Great Alaska Earthquake was the ...

That's mostly thanks to strict building codes passed after a 1964 Alaska earthquake. That earthquake had a magnitude of 9.2, the second-largest ever recorded, and killed more than 130 people.

Yes, the biggest earthquake in the nation’s history happened in Alaska, not California. While the 1906 San Francisco quake might be more famous — it was the deadliest in the country, killing ...

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the state of Alaska on Friday morning, ... On March 27, 1964, Alaska was hit by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake, the strongest recorded in U.S. history, ...

More than small 230 earthquakes have hit parts of Alaska since Friday, when a 7.0-magnitude tremor knocked out power, ripped open roads and splintered buildings near Anchorage.

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This aerial photo shows damage on Vine Road, south of Wasilla, Alaska, after earthquakes . Marc Lester/AP. The earthquake was felt up to 400 miles away, said state seismologist Michael West.

Scientists have generated a map of the deformation of Earth’s surface caused by the November 30, 2018 magnitude 7.0 earthquake beneath the Anchorage area of Alaska. Summary: Scientists with t… ...