I don’t need to look at any data to tell you what area of the U.S. shook the most in 2025. The answer is always Alaska. Alaska topped the charts with magnitude 7.3 and 7.0 quakes and 420 quakes in the ...

Two earthquakes of a 7.0 or greater magnitude have struck within days of each other in Alaska and Japan, prompting worries another big temblor could be on the way. The first quake hit in Alaska on Dec ...

Landslides happen all the time in Alaska. But historically, the main way experts found out about a landslide was if someone witnessed it themselves. “Like someone flying by, or someone would just see ...

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Alaska on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey . The earthquake occurred at 11:41 a.m. local time in northeast of Yakutat, Alaska, the USGS said ...

On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer Glacier, and the ship headed back down the fjord. Twelve hours later, a ...

A few days ago, the forces beneath Alaska rattled people within a 500-mile radius: A magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier. The earthquake’s main shock and aftershocks have revealed ...

A series of strong quakes abroad and smaller ones at home has Californians increasingly asking the same question: Is the “Big One” looming? Two earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater struck within ...

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