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Ketchikan, with a population of about 14,000, is nestled along the southern portion of Alaska’s Inside Passage – a water route famed for its stunning landscapes, fjords and glaciers. The city ...
Emergency crews in the Alaska tourist hub of Ketchikan braced on Monday for more landslides after a large, rain-drenched slope gave way on Sunday, killing one person, injuring three others and ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — One person was killed and three were injured by a landslide that prompted a mandatory evacuation in the Alaska city of Ketchikan, authorities said.. Three people were ...
Lituya Bay is a fjord located on the Fairweather Fault in the northeastern part of the Gulf of Alaska. It is a T-shaped bay with a width of 2 miles (3 km) and a length of 7 miles (11 km). [ 8 ] Lituya Bay is an ice-scoured tidal inlet with a maximum depth of 722 feet (220 m).
The predicted tsunami heights are similar to that of the tsunami from the 1964 Alaska earthquake when it struck the city. [ 4 ] The following year, a report by the U.S. Geological Survey reassessed the tsunami threat posed by the landslide and said that the tsunami 500 m (1,600 ft) offshore Whittier may be slightly over 2 ft (0.61 m) in a worst ...
Ketchikan (/ ˈ k ɛ tʃ ɪ k æ n / KETCH-ih-kan; [4] Tlingit: Kichx̱áan) is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough on Revillagigedo Island of Alaska. [5] [6] It is the state's southeasternmost major settlement.
Mandatory evacuations were underway in the southeastern Alaska of Ketchikan, after a landslide leveled homes and businesses on Aug. 25, 2024, leaving at least one person dead and multiple people ...
An Alaska community is mourning the loss of a father who died in the Sunday landslide that left three others injured and prompted dozens of homes to evacuate.. Land detached from a hillside in ...