A 6.0 Earthquake shook many awake in South-Central Alaska at 8:11 am to begin their Thanksgivings. The earthquake, generated 43 miles beneath the surface occurred 37 miles to the west of Anchorage and could be felt widely through the area and throughout most of the Kenai Peninsula. Little or no damage occurred from the quake. […]
At 9:33 AM on Thursday the population of South Central Alaska on the southern Kenai Peninsula we’re jolted by a brief earthquake that occurred 44 miles South of Seward. The quake occurred at a depth of 13.5 miles at a magnitude of 5.6. The brief shake generated no tsunami warning, advisory, watch, or threat according […]
The recent landslide-generated tsunami in Tracy Arm of Southeast Alaska recalls the granddaddy of them all: the giant wave that scarred Lituya Bay in 1958. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 miles southeast of Yakutat and 40 miles west of Glacier Bay, is the site of the largest splash wave ever recorded. In […]
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