Shutterstock “America’s Last Frontier” is the perfect description for Alaska. The state has some of the most untamed landscapes in the US, from the continent’s highest peaks to its largest glaciers, ...

Nearby volcanoes Makushin and Okmok are unlikely to be affected by the quake, an expert said. (Alaska Earthquake Center) A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck about 58 miles southwest of Unalaska ...

A SAR image — like ones NISAR will produce — shows land cover on Mount Okmok on Alaska’s Umnak Island. Created with data taken in August 2011 by NASA’s UAVSAR instrument, it is an example of ...

Power noted that nearby volcanoes Makushin and Okmok are unlikely to be affected by the quake. To report any seismic activity you felt, head to the United States Geological Survey website. For more ...

Languages: English. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued several winter weather alerts for Alaska, with some areas expected to get up to 20 inches of snow while parts of the state are ...

“It was a major eruption of a great magnitude,” comparable to the well-documented eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BC that cooled the climate by about 12.6 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees ...