When volcanoes are preparing to erupt, scientists rely on typical signs to warn people living nearby: deformation of the ...

NASA is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Facility in Fairbanks to create a powerful, web-based tool that will show the ...

Welcome to your weekly seismic update from across the state, brought to you by the. Over the past week, we recorded about 300 earthquakes. The largest was ...

More than 25 million cubic yards of rock and ice broke loose and plunged into Greenland's Dickson Fjord, creating a ...

Pictured is a sunken cargo ship in the Valdivia River due to the 1960 tsunami and earthquake that struck southern Chile. The Great Alaska or Good Friday Earthquake occurred on March 28, 1964. The ...

A recent study by Virginia Tech geoscientists published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that there’s a 15 percent chance of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake hitting ...

LIVERMORE, Maine (WMTW) — A small earthquake was recorded in central Maine on Wednesday. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 1.7 quake was centered in Livermore and was at a depth of ...

USGS, which monitors volcanoes in addition to earthquakes, predicts more eruptions to come, according to its website. Its scientists are also closely watching Great Sitkin, a volcano in Alaska’s ...