Tips on what to do to keep safe before and during an earthquake
July marks the anniversary of Alaska’s most notorious landslide, Lituya Bay (1958), which generated a devastating tsunami.
The Alaska Earthquake Center formally started in 1987, but our roots go back much further than that.
The Alaska Earthquake Center has been using seismic instruments to monitor unstable slopes in Prince William Sound since August 2023 (Figure 1).
Alaskans are closer to having critical seconds of warning that shaking from a major earthquake is about to occur.
Earthquakes reported in Alaska so far this year: 19246
