This map from the updated National Seismic Hazard Model shows the probability of a damaging earthquake occurring ... the Pacific Northwest and southern Alaska. These are areas where one tectonic ...

The potential for catastrophic earthquakes ... as well as Alaska and Hawaii, could experience a damaging quake sometime within the next century. The color-coded map – the USGS' first to include ...

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. states could experience damaging shaking from earthquakes in the next century, according to the government’s latest National Seismic Hazard Model, which is used to ...

“And in the case of these maps, we have increased the hazard in many ... because in California, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, especially coastal regions, (earthquakes) are much, much more ...

Paleoseismology, pioneered in Alaska, forms the basis for the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Seismic Hazard Maps, which include probability estimates for earthquakes across the country.

A tsunami inundation map shows the maximum ... to first-of-its-kind tsunami hazard modeling of Upper Cook Inlet in a report out Wednesday from the Alaska Earthquake Center, the state Division ...