New detection method aims to warn of landslide tsunamis
A cascade of rock — 180 million tons of it — poured into Alaska’s Taan Fjord near the head of a retreating glacier on a mid-October’s night in 2015 (Figure 1).
Magnitude 7.2 Earthquake South of Sand Point
On July 15, 2023, at 10:48 pm Alaska time, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the offshore Alaska Peninsula region, almost three years after the
A decade of glacier "icequakes"
As we head into winter, seismic events generated by glaciers—so-called icequakes—have quieted down for the season. Each year, hundreds of these icequakes are large enough to be caught by our standard earthquake detection routines.
Earthquakes reported in Alaska so far this year: 7785