We continue to learn from the 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake, even decades later.

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The 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake: Twenty Years of Shaking Up Alaska Seismology The Denali Fault Earthquake provided a wealth of new information for researchers to delve into.

Staff Spotlight: Natalia Ruppert Natalia started working at the Earthquake Center as a seismologist in September 2001. “The Denali Fault Earthquake in 2002 was my first significant earthquake—it's still the most interesting event to me."

Scientific Publications by Alaska Earthquake Center staff

Natalia A. Ruppert, 2008. Five Years after the 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake Sequence: A Regional Network Operator's Perspective. Seismological Research Letters 2008; 79 (3): 424–425. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.79.3.424

Gomberg, J., Prejean, S., and Ruppert, N., 2012. Afterslip, Tremor, and the Denali Fault Earthquake, Bull. seism. Soc. Am., 102, 2, 892-899, DOI: 10.1785/0120110142

Vallage, A., Devès, M.H., Klinger, Y., King, G.C.P., and Ruppert, N.A., 2014. Localized slip and distributed deformation in oblique settings: the example of the Denali fault system, Alaska, Geophys. J. Int., 197, 3, 1284-1298, DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu100