A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 initially triggered a tsunami warning for the southern Alaska Peninsula. It was later downgraded to an advisory.

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Alaska on Wednesday afternoon and a tsunami warning was canceled two hours later for the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island.

An earthquake measuring magnitude 7.3 was recorded off the Alaska coast on Wednesday, July 16, according to the USGS.

A tsunami advisory was issued for parts of Alaska after an earthquake hit off the state’s coast. Officials are urging people in the area to get to higher ground.

Port Vila in Vanuatu, which was heavily impacted by a major earthquake in December 2024, is now reopening for cruise ships.

The April 2015 earthquake severely damaged the unique cultural treasures of the Kathmandu Valley. Reconstruction of the area's temples and palaces has largely succeeded, but rural flight has only accelerated in its wake.

A lava-spewing fissure has opened up along Iceland's Sundhnúkur crater row as the Reykjanes peninsula experiences another volcanic eruption.