A series of moderate to strong earthquakes hit Alaska's western Aleutian Islands and offshore areas on Sunday, in what scientists are referring to as a "swarm,". It comes after a series of ...

A subduction zone, composed of the deep Aleutian Trench coupled with a landward line of volcanoes, creates a series of offshore islands (the Aleutians) as well as a line of volcanoes along the ...

With their close proximity to Japan, the Aleutian Islands seemed especially prone to an attack. Stretching westward into the Pacific Ocean, the chain of roughly 150 islands lay just 750 miles away ...