What's shaking Alaska?!

Join Alaska Earthquake Center staff each Wednesday afternoon on the radio to hear up-to-date summaries of seismic activity from across the state.

The Alaska Earthquake Center was established in 1987 to monitor and research earthquakes in Alaska and help build community resilience to geohazards. Today, the statewide network of over 500 seismic sensors monitors ground motion from many kinds of seismic events, including earthquakes, landslides, and more. With an average of 50,000 earthquakes recorded each year, we stay busy! Our field engineers maintain stations so our custom telecommunications network can deliver ground-motion data to the Earthquake Center within a few seconds. Our data analysts review every seismic event to determine accurate locations and magnitudes. We share this information with the public in a variety of ways, and provide resources to Alaska communities to support local planning and preparedness for earthquake, landslide, and tsunami hazards.