A tsunami watch was issued for Hawaii about 15 mintues after the strongest quake. Warnings were issued for Russia's Kuril Islands. All were canceled.

A series of three earthquakes jolted the area near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky within a 32-minute window on Sunday. The most powerful of the tremors, originally measured at magnitude 7.4 and later ...

The epicenter was near the intersection of Pacific and North American tectonic plates, a seismically active zone. No ...

US Geological Survey to warn that “hazardous tsunami waves are possible” within 300 kilometres (186 miles) of the epicentre ...

Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...

While public TV and radio stations in much of rural America don’t depend on federal funding as heavily as their Alaska ...