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

The National Weather Service has lifted a tsunami advisory for communities on the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island after a ...

All tsunami watches, warnings and advisories for Alaska's southern coast and the U.S. West Coast were canceled Tuesday after a powerful earthquake struck off Alaska's Kodiak Island. A magnitude-7. ...

Emergency response officials activated the Wireless Emergency Alerts system at 10:53 p.m. on July 15, 2023, to announce a tsunami warning on mobile phones in the red zones on this map -- but the ...

Inside tribal headquarters in downtown Seldovia, at the meeting with community leaders, the Alaska tsunami team huddles over a glossy town map. A jagged red line circles the town’s inundation zone.

Saturday night’s tsunami warning issued for the Gulf of Alaska coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cook Inlet was downgraded and later canceled, but not before many people evacuated low-lying ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — A reported 7.5 magnitude earthquake off the Alaska Peninsula on Monday prompted tsunami warnings for a vast swath of communities, leading some schools to evacuate and send ...

FAIRBANKS — Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have been looking into the science behind tsunami risk for Alaska’s coastal communities. Now they’re sharing that knowledge.

A powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake rattled a large swath of coastal Alaska late Tuesday, triggered a tsunami warning that sent residents fleeing before it was called off.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey have solved a 50-year natural science mystery: the undersea source of tsunami waves that devastated a remote Alaska village ...

Mr. Fountain is a science writer and the author of “The Great Quake,” about Alaska’s deadly 1964 earthquake. Published May 14, 2020 Updated July 29, 2021 ...