Mount Spurr lies about 80 miles west of Anchorage, which is Alaska's most populous city, making it one of the state's most closely watched volcanoes. It last erupted in 1992, spreading ash over ...

Scientists at the Alaska Earthquake Center are monitoring a series of earthquakes near Adak Island in the western Aleutians, ...

The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5.

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 ...

Alaska is an enormous state with an incredible variety of terrain and weather. When the original engineers sat down to design the pipeline, federal geologists and environmentalists noted that ...

Scientists have warned that a massive volcano in Alaska has a 50-50 chance erupting in the near future. The 11,000-foot-tall Mount Spurr sits 77 miles from Anchorage— the state's largest city ...