The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is halting a contract that makes it possible for the federal agency to accurately monitor for potential tsunamis in Alaska — and quickly warn ...

The earth just trembled all around you - is a tsunami now on its way? What you should do on holiday near the coast if there's a risk of a tsunami. Till Simon Nagel/dpa You're enjoying a holiday under ...

Tsunamis generated by earthquakes on the Alaska Subduction Zone are a persistent risk in the Pacific Northwest. Decisions being made in the other Washington regarding the fate of nine unassuming and ...

Far out along the rocky cliffs of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, seismic technology works to detect tremors that could cause a devastating tsunami. But now nine of those stations are expected to be ...

Bill would boost NOAA’s tsunami preparedness budget by 35%, require planning for a Pacific Northwest megaquake Read Story ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting system — powered by El Capitan, the world’s fastest supercomputer — that ...

Nine seismic stations in Alaska are set to go dark this month, leaving tsunami forecasters without important data used to determine whether an earthquake will send a destructive wave barreling toward ...

Safety in tsunamis is all about one issue — evacuation. The whole point of a tsunami warning system is to get people out of harm’s way before tsunami surges reach them. There are two big pieces to the ...