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Alaska Earthquake 2025: How Can It Trigger a Tsunami Warning?
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska on July 16, 2025. While significant, the 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake was a massive one with a 9.2 magnitude. It was the strongest ever recorded in North America and caused a huge tsunami across the Pacific.
A seismologist from Seattle discussed recent volcanic activity across the United States. Here's what you should know.
Volcanoes in the United States that have been active since spring woke up, brushed themselves off, and then went back to sleep. Two volcanoes, one in Alaska and one in Hawaii, are experiencing active ...
Seismicity has decreased” from 30 events per hour at the peak to a few per hour as of Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday.
Aftershocks from devastating earthquakes in the 1800s near the Missouri-Kentucky border and in Charleston, South Carolina, may still be occurring, a study found.
Earthquakes today in the U.S. could be left over from seismic activity in the 1800s, scientists have found. In a new study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth ...
This is now the largest recorded earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier since seismic monitoring at the volcano began in 1982, the ...
The researchers found that approximately 30% of all earthquakes from 1980 to 2016 near the Missouri-Kentucky border, all magnitude 2.5 or greater, were likely aftershocks from the three major ...
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