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Photo courtesy of NOAA. Aftermath of 1964 Earthquake in Kodiak. During the magnitude 8.2 earthquake that rocked Southwest Alaska, Kodiak was host to an unexpected visitor- a historian seeking to chronicle the history of recent earthquakes in the North Pacific. “My name is Spencer Abbe. I’m a doctoral student at the University of Oregon in the Department of History. And …

Following last night’s earthquake, Maggie Wall spoke to people on the street to get their reactions. Here’s what they had to say. …

Tsunami warning alarms blared all over Kodiak on Monday afternoon, after the Gulf of Alaska was rocked by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake 55 miles off the Southeastern shore of Sand Point. People sought high ground, and some skippers sped their boats out of port. The Kodiak Emergency Operations Center forecasted that the wave would arrive by 2:50– two hours after …

Please note: this story has been updated from the original. The Kodiak Emergency Operations Center issued a tsunami warning and evacuated low lying areas, after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck southeast of Sand Point at 12:57 p.m. Some people moved to higher ground at the Kodiak High School to wait out the tsunami. Since Monday was Alaska Day and a …

Listen to the story here: This tsunami siren behind the post office has been there for decades. Kodiak has heard the wail of sirens every Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. for decades. They sound like something out of an old, World War II movie – a weekly test of a warning system to signal households in Kodiak’s low-lying areas to move …

After a tsunami warning triggered by last week’s powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake, the sirens that went off Thursday afternoon in Kodiak made some people understandably nervous. Normally, the sirens sound-off every Wednesday afternoon for two minutes. But this Wednesday, they didn’t work properly. The problem?  An upgrade to the Kodiak Police Department’s radio dispatch system. Kodiak’s Police Chief Tim Putney …