The death toll from a massive earthquake in Ecuador has risen rose to 350, as rescuers continue to pull bodies from flattened buildings. Officials fear the death toll could continue to rise from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which struck Ecuador’s northwest coast late Saturday. “Many people remain buried under the rubble,” according to Ecuadorian Red Cross […]
Residents throughout south-central Alaska were jolted from their sleep with a huge jolt at 1:30 am that lasted for 30-45 seconds. The quake was initially reported as not one, but two shakers, generated within three seconds of each other and five miles apart. The reported 6.4 and 7.1 quakes, later reported by the USGS as a […]
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 […]