Welcome to your seismic update from across the state for the week of Jan. 21. I’m Michael West with the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ground shaking 24-7.

Scientists are sharpening their warnings that a powerful tsunami triggered off the Pacific Coast could overwhelm parts of the United States in minutes, leaving little time for coastal cities to react.

The largest domestic quake of the year occurred on July 16 centered south of the Alaska Peninsula, 53 miles south of the island community of Sandpoint.

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Sitkans felt the earth move on Saturday when an earthquake hit west of the community shortly before 1 p.m. The Alaska ...

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HONOLULU (KHON2) — There is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi following a preliminary 6.5 earthquake that struck off the state of Guerrero in Mexico, officials said. The National Weather Service Pacific ...

Multiple earthquakes, including one at 6.2 magnitude, struck western Japan late Tuesday morning local time, centered in Shimane Prefecture and neighboring Tottori Prefecture. The initial quake hit at ...

K-Mart's bankruptcy, declared on January 22, 2002, was one of the largest for a chain of its kind at that time.

Welcome to your seismic update from across the state for the week of Jan. 14, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ground shaking 24-7.