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| Alaska scientists use seismology to predict landslides | Southeast Alaska has experienced a growing number of landslides in recent years and researchers said even seconds of notice could save property and lives. Seismologists study quick, stuttering shifts in the earth to measure how much it is shaking. The seismic signals are caused by trees, rocks… |
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| Collapsing mountains in Alaska are causing massive tsunamis | The Smiths sent a satellite text to Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a geologist friend in Washington, asking her to check nearby seismic stations for signs of landslides. It was the first report of the Tracy Arm tsunami to the outside world. Caplan-Auerbach was sitting down to… |
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| Reflecting Pool Fiasco: How did the renovations get this bad? | Features Professor of Geology Jackie Caplan-Auerbach. "They really should have asked some scientists," Caplan-Auerbach said. |
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| New study confirms landslide in Alaska triggered 1,500-foot megatsunami last August | A new study finds that a megatsunami in Alaska pushed water more than 1,500 feet up the sides of a fjord near Juneau. Researchers say more monitoring is needed to prevent future catastrophes. (WWU Professor of Geology) JACQUELINE CAPLAN-AUERBACH: The fact that… |
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| WWU professor Jackie Caplan-Auerbach co-publishes paper on second-largest tsunami ever recorded | |||
| A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjord | Early in the morning of 10 August 2025, a >64 × 106 m3 landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska. The landslide was preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change. The resulting 481 m runup megatsunami followed an initial 100-… |
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| A Landslide in Alaska Set Off a Tsunami. There May Be More to Come. | Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist at Western Washington University and an author on the new study, was among the first to hear about the tsunami: Her neighbors, whose boat was anchored at sea some 50 miles from the landslide, texted her about a strange surge of water… |
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| Caught in a landslide, the new Arctic reality? | Three days before a survey team took this photo in Alaska’s Tracy Arm, a tsunami – triggered by a landslide on the other side of the fjord – stripped away the vegetation on the slopes at middle. WWU Professor of Geology Jackie Caplan-Auerbach recently co-authored a paper… |
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| A 1,500-foot tsunami took scientists by surprise. Now we know why it happened | Early in the morning on August 10, 2025, Christine Smith awoke in a boat anchored in an inlet along southeast Alaska’s glacier-threaded coast. Smith and her husband were leading a small cruise on their 65-foot wooden boat, the David B. Inclement weather had forced… |
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| The next deadly climate disaster could wipe out glacier-chasing cruise ships | It would take days for the scale of the split-second devastation to become clear, but experts say it was miraculous that no one was hurt or killed. The National Geographic cruise ship, in particular, was saved by the fact it was positioned behind an S-shaped bend in the fjord that blunted the… |