A new scientific analysis of the event shows tiny earthquakes triggered a massive landslide.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Sixty-two years ago, on March 27, 1964, the second-largest earthquake ever recorded hit Alaska. The largest quake to ever hit the Northern Hemisphere, the magnitude 9.2 ...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves barreling across the Pacific to the Americas and south to New Zealand.

The collapse of part of a mountain into a fjord in southeastern Alaska created a wave taller than the Eiffel Tower - “It was sheer luck that no cruise ships were in the area,” experts say ...