The Fault in the Facts

The 1,720-foot wave hit the tall banks of Lituya Bay in Southeast Alaska in 1958. Two people who were in the bay died and four survived.

Alaska is hit with many earthquakes a day, weather they are felt or not. Alaskans have no warning that a big shake is coming, but in this installment of The Fault in the Facts, a seismologist answers the question, “Can scientists predict earthquakes?”

The largest earthquakes in the world in 2020 and 2021 were in Alaska. New research looks into whether they are connected and part of an 80-year sequence of quakes.

The magnitude 9.2 Great Alaska earthquake that struck Prince William Sound on March 27, 1964, is known as the largest to hit Alaska and the second-largest ever recorded in the world.