Officials in the community of King Cove, which has about 870 residents and is on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, sent an alert calling on those in the coastal area to move to higher ground.

The National Weather Service said there is no tsunami threat to Hawaii after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook the Alaska Peninsula.

A tsunami advisory was lifted Wednesday afternoon for a portion of the Alaskan Peninsula coastline following a 7.3 magnitude ...

A tsunami warning that was then downgraded to an advisory was triggered by a 7.3-magnitude quake in the Gulf of Alaska on Wednesday, according to data from the U.S. Tsunami Warning System, which is ...

The National Weather Service said they were reasonably confident that the Kenai Peninsula Borough locations will not see impacts.

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The East Tennessee earthquake on May 10 was one of the strongest to hit the region since 1900. The East Tennessee Seismic Zone is an active one, even if it isn't known to produce quakes strong ...

A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Atlantic Ocean on Friday, prompting an alert for a potential tsunami along parts of the Chilean coast, according to monitoring agencies in the ...

A major earthquake waiting to strike the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn’t the only natural disaster looming in the Pacific Northwest, new research shows.

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward ...