The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 prompted the government to establish a nationwide network to monitor seismic activity, and this unparalleled and sophisticated observation system is ...

the Great Sumatran Fault in Indonesia, the Alpine Fault in New Zealand, the Denali Fault in Alaska, and the Philippine Fault which generated a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on July 16, 1990.

How devastating was the great quake of 1964? Here’s a summary by John MacKie of the Vancouver Sun, originally published on the 50th anniversary of the disaster. At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a ...

Earthquakes ... Alaska. A J.C. Penney building sustained heavy damage and an apartment building collapsed in Anchorage, while the school system was devastated. The Valdivian Earthquake, or the ...

It has also intrigued oil and gas developers, as well as seismologists who know the self-healing surface hides the scars of large earthquakes. Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska ...

And the fourth earthquake, a 2.9 magnitude, was reported at 1:29pm ET. While a swarm like this would be felt by hundreds of people, the epicenter is in the Great Basin that is sparsely populated.

Below our six-seat Cessna was a glacier extending 36 miles from the great peak ... percent of the world's earthquakes crack the ground here. There is a fault in Alaska almost twice as large ...