Sleuthing the Site of a Century-Old Earthquake

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 27, 2017   Featured, Interior Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

  The second-largest earthquake on the planet in 1904 happened somewhere in Alaska. It could have been St. Michael, Rampart, Fairbanks, Coldfoot or a place called Sunrise on the Kenai Peninsula. People felt the magnitude 7.3 at each place. If an earthquake happens today, within a few minutes Alaska Earthquake Center researchers post a map […]