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The Hogatza River (Koyukon: Hʉgaadzaat No’; Iñupiaq: Kuuġuqpak or Haukaatchiatnaaq) is a 120-mile (190 km) tributary of the Koyukuk River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Beginning in the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve , it flows generally southwest to meet the larger river west of Hughes . [ 3 ]
The Alaska water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...
14 Upper Colorado region: The drainage of: the Colorado River Basin above the Lee Ferry compact point which is one mile below the mouth of the Paria River; the Great Divide closed basin. Includes parts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. 113,347 sq mi (293,570 km 2) 1,800,000: HUC14: 15 Lower Colorado region
In July 2020, the Aleutian Subduction Zone was the source of an M w 7.8 earthquake which struck the same region south of the Alaska Peninsula. It was followed by another aftershock of M w 7.6 in October the same year. [24] [25] [6] The United States Geological Survey have since considered the two earthquakes as foreshocks to the M w 8.2 in 2021.
The mean transport of the baroclinic current near Kodiak Island in the western gulf of Alaska is approximately 10 Sv in the upper 1500 m. [4] The Alaska Current, together with the Gulf of Alaska, has an impact on the climate system of the southwestern United States, including seasonal rainfall and snow.
In Winnipeg, Manitoba, the high temperature did not rise above −20.0 °C (−4.0 °F) for 9 consecutive days, the longest period since 1996. [14] On February 7, 2021, the International Airport weather station in Edmonton, Alberta, recorded a low temperature of −43.6 °C (−46.5 °F) with two consecutive lows below −40.0 °C (−40.0 °F).
Matanuska-Susitna Valley (/ m æ t ə ˈ n uː s k ə s uː ˈ s ɪ t n ə /; known locally as the Mat-Su or The Valley) is an area in Southcentral Alaska south of the Alaska Range about 35 miles (56 km) north of Anchorage, Alaska. [1] It is known for the world record sized cabbages and other vegetables displayed annually in Palmer at the ...
Goodnews Bay is located on the north shore of Goodnews Bay at the mouth of the Goodnews River, at (59.121408, -161.585835 It is 116 miles (187 km) south of Bethel, 110 miles (180 km) northwest of Dillingham and 400 miles (640 km) west of Anchorage.