The Great Alaska Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the United States. Its violent tremors reshaped Alaska’s landscape and American earthquake preparedness forever.

With a rumbling wave up to a third of a mile high, thundering across the ocean at hundreds of miles per hour, the sheer destructive power of a mega tsunami is difficult to imagine.

Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the mainland West Coast would be at risk if an earthquake erupts along the Cascadia subduction zone within the next 50 years.

Alaska, Hawaii and the West Coast of the mainland ... “The expansion of the coastal floodplain following a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake has not been previously quantified, and the impacts ...

Seismic symphonies of minor earthquakes may affect grand movements on major faults.

Tsunamis pose a risk to the entirety of the California coast. But should a major one strike, how bad could it be?

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...

A recent Virginia Tech study reveals that the Pacific Northwest faces a heightened risk of catastrophic flooding and mega-tsunamis, potentially reachi ...

The area surrounding the lagoon, first proposed in 1964, has been a gathering place for the entirety of the human record.

A constant fixture of National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek’s journey through rural Japan was the whirligig, or as he ...