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Why Alaska’s recent 7.3 earthquake has caught the attention of scientists
A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Wednesday, prompting a tsunami warning and calls ...
Seismologists tapped into the fiber optic cable network to study offshore faults
The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...
Scientists Believe This Major Earthquake Fault Line Is Waking Up
Seismic pressure is building along the Tintina fault line, stretching from Canada's Yukon Territory to Alaska.
Opinion | The Pacific tsunami response is a warning about federal funding for science
After a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, tsunami alerts rippled out across Hawaii, Alaska, ...
Fault line on Canadian border thought dormant for years could cause major earthquake, new study shows
The new study reveals more recent activity along the Tintina fault, which stretches about 600 miles, from northeastern ...
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Magnitude 7.3 earthquake reported in southern Alaska - UPI
Image by U.S. Geological Survey July 16 (UPI) -- A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Alaska on Wednesday and a tsunami warning was canceled two hours later for the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak ...