Locally, the seismograph at McQuaid Jesuit High School picked up on the quake as the earthquake “waves” passed through the Rochester region just 10 minutes after the initial strike.

McQuaid Jesuit is a fair distance away from Alaska, but the school was still able to take note of that state’s sizeable earthquake Wednesday night. The 8. 2 magnitude earthquake hit just ...

How the Great Alaska Earthquake Shook Up Science Sixty years ago, the largest earthquake in U.S. history shocked geologists. It’s still driving scientific discoveries today ...

Deep in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, and part of the tourist-filled Tuckaleechee Caverns, the AS107 seismograph captures a goldmine of geological data.

W hen the Great Alaska Earthquake convulsed the south-central region of that vast state on March 27, 1964, the energy released by the upheaval — the largest quake in recorded North American ...

This week, Alaska commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Great Alaska Earthquake. The calamity destroyed whole towns, took lives and still stands as the largest earthquake to ever rock ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For the first time, a new computer model details the path of destruction wrought by the enormous 1964 Alaska earthquake, and could help researchers better predict future ...

President Lyndon Johnson ordered a comprehensive scientific study of the earthquake. [ See Photos of the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake ] The geologic discoveries transformed how we understand ...

Histories of Anchorage: Housing discrimination and economic disparities meant Black people and other minorities were barred from living in the very Anchorage neighborhoods that were hardest hit.

Fifty years ago today, at 5:36 p.m., a magnitude 9.2 earthquake grabbed hold of south-central Alaska and started shaking.