Communities are selected with consideration to their tsunami hazard exposure, location, infrastructure, availability of data, ...
TsunamiReady is a National Weather Service designation for a local government, tribe, or facility that has completed the following preparedness steps: Hazard Mapping: Define local tsunami hazard zones ...
Interior Alaska seismicity reflects transpression and block rotation. Three different types of tectonic structures contribute to generating seismicity in this region: right-lateral strike-slip faults ...
A massive collapse high in the mountains in glacier terrain, followed by massive flooding—this is the setting of the recent horrific flood along the Nepal border, but it also sounds familiar to many ...
Earthquakes in Southcentral Alaska are produced by a number of different tectonic features. (1) The strongest earthquakes in Southcentral Alaska are generated by the megathrust fault that marks the ...
The Denali Fault is a major intracontinental right-lateral strike-slip fault that partially accommodates the oblique collision of the Yakutat block into Alaska's margin, extending from northwestern ...
On Friday August 7th, close to 9 pm, the area west of Susitna swayed from a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in the shallow crust (Figure 1). Alaska Earthquake Center seismic data manager Heather McFarlin was ...
Seismicity in Southwest Alaska is very sparse. Known faults include the Iditarod-Nixon Fork and the western Denali Fault. Neither fault system has documented historical or Holocene earthquake activity ...
Earthquakes in Southcentral Alaska are produced by a number of different tectonic features. (1) The strongest earthquakes in Southcentral Alaska are generated by the megathrust fault that marks the ...
Earthquakes in Southcentral Alaska are produced by a number of different tectonic features. (1) The strongest earthquakes in Southcentral Alaska are generated by the megathrust fault that marks the ...
Earthquakes in Southcentral Alaska are produced by a number of different tectonic features. (1) The strongest earthquakes in Southcentral Alaska are generated by the megathrust fault that marks the ...
Seismicity in the Alaska Peninsula region is produced by different tectonic features: (1) The Aleutian megathrust is the source of the strongest earthquakes in the region. The most recent examples ...