While this is the first extreme drought classification in Alaska, it is likely not the first in the region. Similar deficits were measured in the early 1990s, before the U.S. Drought Monitor was ...

A magnitude 6.4 quake struck northeast of Fairbanks, the state’s second-biggest city, and had a depth of about 9.9 kilometres. The region’s previous most powerful was in 1995 at magnitude 5.2.