Category Rat Islands

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the Rat Islands region of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a shallow depth of 6 km, occurring far offshore in one of the most seismically active subduction zones on the planet. No impacts have been…

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the Rat Islands region of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a shallow depth of 10 km, occurring far offshore in one of the most seismically active subduction zones on the planet. No impacts have been…

The islands got their name from rats that were accidentally introduced by a Japanese shipwreck in the 1780s. A successful, government-funded program eradicated rats from Hawadax Island, leading to the island’s renaming and the restoration of its native birds and…

The islands got their name from rats that were accidentally introduced by a Japanese shipwreck in the 1780s. A successful, government-funded program eradicated rats from Hawadax Island, leading to the island’s renaming and the restoration of its native birds and…

The islands got their name from rats that were accidentally introduced by a Japanese shipwreck in the 1780s. A successful, government-funded program eradicated rats from Hawadax Island, leading to the island’s renaming and the restoration of its native birds and…

The islands got their name from rats that were accidentally introduced by a Japanese shipwreck in the 1780s. A successful, government-funded program eradicated rats from Hawadax Island, leading to the island’s renaming and the restoration of its native birds and…