The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it has reached a new agreement with the Alaska Mesonet.

After months of nail-biting over a looming data blackout, federal officials say a new NOAA agreement has thrown a lifeline to nine seismic stations in Alaska, keeping them online and restoring the ...

A quiet California fishing town thought it understood tsunamis. Crescent City had seen warnings before, and most waves caused little more than damage along the harbor. In March 1964, after a powerful ...

From Bhopal to the draining of the Aral Sea, discover some of the worst man-made disasters that have occurred around the ...

Photo credit: victoria cervantes Most lighthouses are content to sit on easily accessible points of land, where visitors can ...

Welcome to your seismic update from across the state for the week of March 11, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ground shaking 24-7.

The magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, ravaged parts of the region, killed more than 22,000 people and forced nearly half a million to flee their homes.

A volcano on Atka Island in the Aleutians has been showing increasing signs of unrest over the past two weeks, and scientists say the uptick in activity is significant enough to warrant a closer watch ...

Every summer, people living near the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, keep a close eye on the water level. When the river ...

On Feb. 5, 2026, the family of Alecia Ai Lindsay filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Municipality of Anchorage, alleging that a 911 dispatcher’s failure to recognize a medical emergency — and a ...