Aftershocks have been recorded for both earthquakes. On Dec. 8, Japanese authorities warned an even more powerful earthquake ...

Two major earthquakes struck Alaska and Japan recently. Is this is a statistically normal scenario or a cause for alarm?

This sensor, one of 52 — half of them in Homer, half in Kodiak — that Quigley and other Alaska Earthquake Center scientists ...

Major quakes in Japan and Alaska along with a spate of smaller earthquakes in California this fall make folks ask, is the Big ...

Then Japan's northern region took a 7.6 mega-quake on December 8, sparking tsunami alerts (later cancelled), injuring at ...

After a magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier earlier this month, scientists believe a “connector fault” may ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, about 20,000 earthquakes happen worldwide each year, or roughly 55 per day.

A 7.5 quake in northeastern Japan has revived fears of a future “megaquake,” prompting fresh advisories and renewed calls for ...

In Alaska, a federal grant that funded seismic data collection in order to warn people about tsunamis is being cancelled. Experts say cuts like this could make tsunami warnings less reliable.

With natural disasters striking communities across the U.S. at an accelerating pace, the question of how to build homes that can endure them has never ...

Japan is assessing damage and cautioning people of potential aftershocks after a late-night 7.5 magnitude earthquake caused ...

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern ...