An aerial view of Mount Spurr’s summit crater on June 23, 2024. (Rui Mota / Alaska Volcano Observatory and U.S. Geological Survey) The Alaska Volcano Observatory raised the alert level of Mount ...

Alaska was shaken by a a 5.8 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday afternoon. The tremor, about 75 miles north west of Anchorage, shook buildings for about 15 to 20 seconds in the city at around 3.30pm.

(Original Caption) San Francisco: Giants’ Brett Butler leads his family off the Candlestick Park after an earthquake cancelled game 3 of the World Series. SAN FRANCISCO – OCTOBER 1989 ...

Most people think that earthquakes occur only in places like California, Alaska, and Japan. This couldn't be farther from the truth. Several major and numerous minor earthquakes have occurred in the ...

A STADIUM once feared by the British and Irish Lions has been turned into a recreational PARK after a deadly earthquake left it abandoned. The turn-stiles at Lancaster Park in Christchurch ...

California is preparing for the annual ShakeOut earthquake drill, emphasizing the importance of preparedness. It’s not your imagination: The ground beneath Southern California has been ...

But the drill will help ensure that participants are prepared for the next big earthquake the state faces. Coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the destructive Loma Prieta earthquake ...

Some earthquakes are imperceptibly quiet. We may not feel them, but machines might detect them—and they can point scientists to a potential "Big One". Geophysicist Zachary Ross is pioneering a ...

Seismologists study earthquakes by looking at the damage that was caused and by using seismometers. A seismometer is an instrument that records the shaking of the Earth's surface caused by seismic ...

A surge of earthquakes is rippling through California and reaching as far as Las Vegas. Since Oct. 9, Death Valley National Park has seen 130 earthquakes. Elizabeth Cochran, a research ...

It looks like midnight in the middle of winter,” one Anchorage woman told the newspaper. The volcano was last on yellow alert status in 2004, when earthquakes increased, heat melted a hole in ...

The earthquake took 185 lives that day ... It has since been transformed into a public recreational park with facilities for community sport, and was re-opened in June 2022.