As earthquakes grow stronger beneath remote Alaska volcanoes, risk of eruption increases. George Petras Stephen J. Beard. USA TODAY.

Two days after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near Anchorage, Alaska is still shaking. Since Friday's tremor, the strongest to strike The Last Frontier since a 7.9 in the remote Rat Islands in ...

Alaska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, with more large quakes than the other 49 states combined. Southern Alaska has a high risk of earthquakes due to tectonic plates sliding past each other ...

Southern Alaska has a high risk of earthquakes due to tectonic plates — part of the Pacific Ocean's so-called "Ring of Fire" — sliding past each other under the region.

More than small 230 earthquakes have hit parts of Alaska since Friday, when a 7.0-magnitude tremor knocked out power, ripped open roads and splintered buildings near Anchorage.

The United States Geological Survey warned that nearly 75% of the U.S. could face potentially damaging earthquakes and intense ground shaking in the next 100 years. The agency shared new maps ...

The risk of a deadly tsunami ravaging the United States is now leading scientists to investigate hazards posed by giant earthquakes off the Alaskan coast. Scientists are concentrating on the ...

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the Gulf of Alaska on Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake hit just before noon and was centered about 70 miles south-southwest ...

Alaska Earthquake Center senior scientist Natalia Ruppert directs a group to jump around a seismic station on the playground of Glacier View School on Tuesday, April 30 in Chickaloon.