Arctic News

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale hit the Greenland Sea on April 26, 2014, at 03:55:33 UTC at a depth of 10.00 km (...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale hit the Arctic Ocean on April 13, 2014, at 02:12:19 UTC at a depth of 10.00 km (6...

On March 9, 2014, Arctic sea ice area was at a record low for the time of the year, at only 12.88731 square kilometers. Sea ice extent ...

The above image shows recent large methane release over the Gakkel Ridge, the faultline that crosses the Arctic Ocean between the norther...

In the early morning of November 9, 2013, the Norwegian Sea was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 on the Richter Scale. Earlier (...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale hit the Greenland Sea near  Svalbard  on October 28, 2013. [ Earthquake indic...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale hit the waters 231 miles (371 kilometers) east of Japan on October 25, 2013, repo...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 on the Richter scale hit the Laptev Sea on September 28, 2013. [ click on image to enlarge ] Th...

Methane as recorded by IASI* reached levels of up to 2571 parts per billion (ppb) on September 11, 2013. The image below shows the peak ...