This edition of the Fault in the Facts dives into the latest landslide to make big waves in Alaska, and it looks at what scientists still want to know about the ever growing, and constantly melting threat, of retreating glaciers leading to massive landslides in the state.
A wave nearly as tall as the Empire State Building tore through a Southeast Alaska fjord last year. A new study published Wednesday says it was the second-highest tsunami run-up ever recorded in the United States, and it went completely undetected.
A grad student at UAF is helping lead an Alaska Earthquake Center project aimed at developing a new method for better locating offshore earthquakes that could be integrated into a possible future earthquake early warning system in Alaska.
The second-largest earthquake ever recorded hit Alaska on this day 62 years ago. We take a look back at the event and hear from the people who lived through it.
It was early morning of August 10, 2025 in Southeast Alaska when there were only a few known people within a few miles of Tracy Arm when Mother Nature decided to show her force and leave a scar on the land.
Nine Alaska tsunami detection stations will stay online through January after the University of Alaska stepped in with emergency funding, but their long-term future remains uncertain.
A significant landslide fell into water in Southeast Alaska around 5:30 Sunday morning. The Alaska Earthquake Center said evidence suggests it triggered a one-foot tsunami.
A tsunami advisory has been canceled for the western Aleutians from Amchitka Pass to Attu following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck just east of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The wave of Sunday’s landslide-triggered tsunami in Southeast Alaska pummeled its way at least 100 feet up the adjacent hillside, according to a new report.
By Georgina Fernandez, Quinn White, Jayce Bertrand, Dani Tompkins and Joey Klecka
People in Sand Point and neighboring communities in the Aleutian Islands were shaken by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake Wednesday, with many more feeling the impacts of tsunami warnings and advisories.
A tsunami warning that was issued Wednesday for parts of Southcentral and Southwest Alaska due to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake along the Aleutian Chain has been canceled.
A clock hangs on the wall of an Anchorage bakery. It stopped telling time at 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964. It fell off the wall of an Anchorage restaurant during Alaska's Good Friday earthquake.
The Great Alaska Earthquake struck Alaska 62 years ago on March 27, 1964. Valdez resident Wade Huls was just 11 on that day, but remembers the events vividly.
State Seismologist and Alaska Earthquake Center Director Michael West said this feature helps demonstrate what could be possible for an Alaska early warning system.
Geologists with the State of Alaska are currently in Ketchikan researching slope conditions in an effort to ensure the area is safe before looking into the actual cause of Sunday’s deadly landslide.
Scientists and Kenai Fjords National Park are recommending people going to an area near Seward to be aware after they say a major rain event triggered an estimated 2.6 million cubic yards of land to fall and trigger a tsunami in Pedersen Lagoon.
