A magnitude 7.9 earthquake early Tuesday is what is known as a strike-slip, or when two large blocks move side-to-side instead of up-and-down. That, and it’s distance from shore may explain why tsunami waves were so small.
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Seismologist: Earthquake swarm not indicative of … anything
A spate of earthquakes widely felt in Southcentral Alaska lately has some wondering if that’s a good sign or a bad sign, insofar as larger quakes are concerned. But you can’t make assumptions on future quakes based on what we’re feeling now, according to Natalia Ruppert, a seismologist with the Alaska Earthquake Center in Fairbanks.…
Years of budget cuts hamper monitoring of Alaska earthquakes, including Monday’s
The Alaska Earthquake Center has suspended most field maintenance of the state’s 150 seismic monitoring stations. Forty stations are currently offline.
Seismologists count over 100 aftershocks since morning earthquakes
A seismologist says the biggest aftershock recorded so far was a magnitude 4.7. She says the aftershocks won’t travel as wide an area as the earthquakes that triggered them, but Southeast communities could still feel them.
Early morning Earthquake shakes up Southeast Alaska, Yukon
A major earthquake rocked Southeast Alaska and an area of the Yukon on Monday morning. The magnitude 6.2 shaker hit at 4:30 a.m. and was centered near the Haines Highway about 55 miles northwest of Skagway.
Earthquake simulator to bring jolt of awareness to Southeast and Yukon
The ‘Quake Cottage,’ an earthquake simulator, is scheduled to visit 10 communities in Southeast Alaska and the Yukon for the first time ever this fall.
The continued mystery of the Denali Gap
North America’s highest mountain should be a volcano.
Seismologists answer the call to rural Alaska
Born and raised in Russia, Ruppert is not the Einstein lookalike people perhaps expect when they hear an earthquake expert is coming to visit.
Minto Flats: The home of hidden faults
Four scientists embarked on a trip to install a dozen sensitive ground-motion detectors in what they call the Minto Flats seismic zone.
‘Second shake’ rattles Noatak, northwest Brooks Range
Just two weeks after the strongest earthquake in the region in more than 30 years, residents of Noatak and others near the far western edge of the Brooks Range felt another series of powerful quakes over the weekend.