Natural Disasters

Alaska Airlines canceled flights to Nome and Kotzebue on the morning of August 12, 2025 after volcanic ash from an eruption of the Klyuchevskoy volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula drifted over the Bering Sea. The Anchorage Volcanic Ash Advisory Center issued a warning...

A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on July 30, 2025, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific that impacted western coastal regions including Hawaii, California, Alaska, and Japan. As a result, Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines...