Businesses left. Entire communities had to relocate and rebuild. But perhaps the Great Alaska Earthquake’s most significant and lasting impact was on science. It struck at a key moment in ...

The Great Alaska Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the United States. Its violent tremors reshaped ...

The Great Alaska Earthquake confirmed that theory, said geologist Peter Haeussler, the U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska earthquake-hazards coordinator. "It was only after the '64 earthquake that it ...

Back-to-back aftershocks — with preliminary magnitudes of 4.8 and 4.1 — jolted Southcentral Alaska ... of an earthquake ... based on measurement of the maximum motion recorded by a seismograph." ...

The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964, which led to tsunamis, landslides, and over 100 fatalities did occur at a subduction zone, which often leads to more of a vertical thrust and displacement of ...

Fifty years ago today, at 5:36 p.m., a magnitude 9.2 earthquake grabbed hold of south-central Alaska and started shaking. It didn’t cease for more than four minutes and was felt as far away as ...

will be read as a low frequency on a seismograph in Tennessee, which, especially when used in conjunction with other seismographs around the world, helps pinpoint where the earthquake originated.

The new model shows that the seismically active regions of California and Alaska are at risk of earthquakes. The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake and Alaska's Rat Islands Earthquake the following year ...

Charles F. Richter developed the Richter scale in 1935 as a mathematical device to compare the size of earthquakes. The magnitude of an earthquake is recorded by a seismograph. When an earthquake ...

There were great horrors, but what many children remember is missing their supper. The earthquake struck at 5:36 p.m. Alaska Standard Time on Good Friday. When the first shaking hit, many parents ...