Timeline

  • 1999
    Infrasound Array Funded by U.S. Department of Energy
    Infrasonic Array built to be above ground. Looks like pipes being held up by wooden boards with white metal-detecting-looking circles on the end.

    In the summer of 1999 the Geophysical Institute is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to install a four-sensor infrasonic array in Fairbanks to test its operation under arctic conditions.

  • 2002
    7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake
    USGS picture of an earthquake's remnants (large earth splitting crack)

    Geophysical Institute seismologists work on the magnitude 7.9 Denali Fault earthquake. The quake shook the state for more than two minutes and scarred 300 kilometers of Alaska's surface. The quake was the largest recorded worldwide in 2002.

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Since it was established by an Act of Congress in 1946, scientists at the Geophysical Institute have studied geophysical processes from the center of the Earth to the surface of the sun and beyond, turning data and observations into information useful for state, Arctic and national priorities.

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