For the third time in a week, Japan has been struck by a major earthquake. On Wednesday, Japan was subjected to another quake, this one struck near the northern island of Honshu. This latest quake struck near where the March 2011 quake struck, killing 15,000 people and heavily damaging the Fukushima nuclear facility. Japan suffers […]
New evidence for frequent large tsunamis at a remote island near Dutch Harbor, Alaska provides geological data to aid tsunami hazard preparedness efforts around the Pacific Rim. Recent fieldwork in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands suggests that a presently “creeping” section of the Aleutian Subduction Zone fault could potentially generate an earthquake great enough to send 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 […]
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 […]