One big earthquake, two Alaska ghost towns - Geophysical Institute
Jul 11, 2025 · Tape, a seismologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute, has driven me to two Alaska ghost towns on this smoky midsummer night. Tape and I are now …
Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map | Geophysical Institute
Oct 13, 2016 · In the time period she looked at, about 1880 until the present, Mikow found several reasons Alaska towns ceased to be. First was the appearance of whalers, miners and trappers …
Franklin, Alaska: A town that once was - Geophysical Institute
Aug 23, 2018 · My canoeing partner and neighbor, Ian Carlson, 13, wanted to see a ghost town. The map told us one should be dead ahead. There, up a path of floury soil, was Franklin, …
Iditarod: one of the last Gold Rush towns | Geophysical Institute
Apr 5, 2019 · The wood for construction came from very far away. Founded late in the Gold Rush, when almost all the other booms in Alaska had busted, Iditarod was born in an era of …
Tsunami-causing slide was largest in decade, earthquake center …
Sunday’s massive tsunami-causing landslide in Southeast Alaska likely sent more than 100 million cubic meters of debris into an icy fjord and onto a prominent glacier in one of the …
History - Geophysical Institute
Tape, a seismologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute, has driven me to two Alaska ghost towns on this smoky midsummer night. Tape and I are now looking down …
Dangerous cold across the land | Geophysical Institute
Jan 23, 2025 · The warmest air people in Allakaket (about 56 miles away) felt the next day was minus 66 degrees, which is still Alaska’s record for the coldest high temperature of any day. …
The Most Remote Spot in Alaska | Geophysical Institute
Oct 30, 2003 · Dissing uses a GIS program with a blank map of Alaska to which she can add features, such as rivers, towns, roads, and trails. To begin the search for Alaska’s middle-of …
Sled Dogs Were Lifesavers in the Serum Run | Geophysical Institute
Mar 1, 2001 · Then, as today, Nome's closest link to any motorized form of transportation was the Alaska Railroad, which slants closest to Nome at the town of Nenana. Between the two towns …
Why Do Roads Corrugate? | Geophysical Institute
Dec 18, 2025 · Washboard roads are a bane to travelers worldwide. This includes, of course, Alaska, where the options for getting away from it all would be limited indeed if gravel roads …