Sitkans felt the earth move on Saturday when an earthquake hit west of the community shortly before 1 p.m. The Alaska Earthquake Center reported that the Magnitude 4 quake hit at 12:45 p.m. 36 miles ...

Welcome to your seismic update from across the state for the week of Jan. 21. I’m Michael West with the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ground shaking 24-7.

A 7.3 quake hit near Sand Point, Alaska, on Wednesday, prompting tsunami warnings for South Alaska, the Alaska Peninsula, and nearby coastal areas.

The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center has canceled a tsunami warning it issued after a large earthquake struck in the Aleutian Islands at 1:55 a.m. local time. The USGS revised the quake ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — A powerful earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but the alert was canceled when no damaging waves were generated.

The Barry Arm landslide is enormous—about 500 million cubic meters of rock, roughly the size of a city block and enough material to bury Manhattan under a 200‑foot layer of debris. The slope has been ...