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Welcome to your weekly seismic update from across the state, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ground shaking 24-7. Over the past week, we recorded
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New findings of earthquake recurrence on the Denali fault line in southwest Yukon is helping researchers get closer to pinpointing when the next 'big one' in the area might arrive.
No. If Denali were a volcano, the mountain would show its hand with volcanic rocks on the surface as well as hot springs. As for the volcano-like earthquakes, Holtkamp said they don't require the ...
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Are branch faults the 'on-ramps' that lead to great continental ...The five largest continental transform earthquakes since 2000 all originated on a branch of the main fault—and two researchers predict that the next great earthquake of this type will also get ...
Ten years ago this week, the Denali Fault earthquake shook Interior Alaska. On November 3, 2002 the 7.9 magnitude quake caused extensive damage to infrastructure along the fault line, including ...
On Nov. 3, 2002, the Great Alaskan tremor struck. It was officially called the Denali Earthquake because its epicentre was 66 km east-southeast of Denali National Park, Ala., the 49th state in the ...
On June 7, 1913, Alaska Native Walter Harper was the first person to summit Denali, the highest peak in North America. And though the face of our nation has evolved from mostly white to a mosaic ...
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 ...
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