No reports of damage was received from the sparsely populated area in the western Aleutians after a 6.2 magnitude struck 58 miles to the east-southeast of the island of Atka at 7:03 am on Monday morning. The quake struck approximately 10 miles below the seafloor to the south of the Aleutian Chain where the Pacific […]
Months of warning signs from Mauna Loa, on Hawaii’s Big Island, prompted the U.S. Geological Survey to recently start releasing weekly updates on activity at the world’s largest active volcano. For now, such warning signs can only rely on external clues, like earthquakes and gas emissions. But a University of Washington simulation has managed to […]
Tsunami advisories have been issued for several locations throughout the Pacific after the huge earthquake that shook central Chile on Thursday evening taking the lives of at least eight people. The quake was felt throughout much of South America. 15-foot waves struck portions of the coast of Chile, causing as many as a million people […]
A massive earthquake, the largest on the planet this year, struck near the central coast of Chile at 6:54 pm today. Three persons are confirmed dead in the powerful, 8.3 magnitude quake. One, a 26-year-old woman, died when a wall fell on her, another, a 20-year-old man, died when his truck fell into the sea […]