MINTO — Sarah Silas, 89, smiled as she remembered an earthquake that shook her village more than 60 years ago. The floor of her cabin swayed so that her young son staggered away from her. “My three-year old boy was laughing,” she said inside her log cabin, its front door open to warm air on […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When a segment of a major fault line goes quiet, it can mean one of two things: The “seismic gap” may simply be inactive — the result of two tectonic plates placidly gliding past each other — or the segment may be a source of potential earthquakes, quietly building tension over decades until […]
The small community of Noatak awoke to a series of earthquakes originating in the Brooks Range on Monday morning. The first quake occurred at 3:38 am measuring a magnitude 3.1, it was generated at a depth of 10.6 miles 25 miles east of Noatak. A second quake occurred 22 minutes later at 4 am. This one […]