With Spurr rumbling near Anchorage, let's look at some of the largest eruptions in the most volcanically active state of the ...

The agency started updating California's tsunami danger maps after 2011's Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami in Japan that ...

This week, it makes far more sense to test an aspect of our tsunami system that didn’t perform very well last December — who ...

If the landslide at the Barry Arm fjord collapses, its falling ice and rock could generate a devastating 650-foot-high ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory says that if the snowcapped volcano erupts, the impacts could include damage to aircraft from ash.

Lori Townsend reports, the people who monitor seismic activity worldwide are in Alaska Alaskans know that the risk of tsunami is always present. The recent 20-year anniversary of the deadly ...

Researchers predict the most likely outcome of the unrest at Mt. Spurr is “one or more explosive events” that could last as ...

The risk of damaging flooding from a major tsunami may be greater than many realized along stretches of California's renowned ...

Alaska, one of the world’s most seismically active locations, just completed a relatively quiet year for earthquakes but a busy year for landslides in the Southcentral region, according to an ...

A tsunami can strike anywhere along most of the U.S. coastline. The most destructive tsunamis have occurred along the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. Earthquake ...

Due to its unique geography, the Northland region is considered to have one of the highest vulnerabilities to tsunami hazards ...

“There are places on the U.S. West Coast, and here in Alaska, where an entire safe evacuation for a near-shore event ... would [have] a much lower success rate,” said Dave Snider, the tsunami ...