Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

A volcano in southern Alaska is rumbling with seismic activity, which hints at the possibility that it might soon erupt.

Alaska’s Emergency Operations Center has cancelled an annual test of the system responsible for alerting Alaskans about ...

An active volcano near Alaska's most populated city could be on the brink of eruption, according to scientists who are constantly monitoring a potential threat.

Alaska had two magnitude 6.3 earthquakes in 2024, and they were the state’s largest quakes for the year, according to the ...

A volcano near Alaska's most populous city is showing signs it could be headed toward an eruption, officials said.

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according to the United Nations. In 2020, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred off the coast of Jamaica, with shaking felt from Central America to South Florida, but there were no reports of major ...

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea Saturday night, north of Honduras and southwest of the Cayman Islands, briefly triggered tsunami alerts that were later lifted. The U.S ...

ALASKA-Even as the wreckage of a Cessna 208B ... The incident comes at a time of heightened scrutiny of air safety in the United States. NTSB investigators are probing two deadly crashes in ...

After a pair of small earthquakes shook San Bernardino on Monday morning, the city was jolted by another earthquake just before 10 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was the second ...