Alaskan daylight time Tuesday a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake occurred just south of the Aleutian islands near Sand Point. The quake prompted tsunami warning across Aleutians east, Lake & ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

A tsunami warning was issued for south Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck at around 4.30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). The ...

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New evidence suggests current estimates about tsunami size and how quickly waves make it to shore may be too high and too ...

A tsunami warning has been issued for Alaska after a 7.2 magnitude tremor struck at a depth of 22 miles rocked the Pacific ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...

WASHINGTON, USA — A "swarm" of small earthquakes near the summit of Mount Rainier Tuesday is no cause for concern, according ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

For U.S. earthquake scientists, Japan's 'megaquake' warning renewed worries about when and how to warn the public if they find clues that the 'big one' might be coming for the West COast.

The Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone ranks among the world's most seismically active regions, having generated more magnitude 8 and above earthquakes in the past century than any other area on the ...