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 ...
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 ...
On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake struck near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, triggering a tsunami that barreled across the Pacific and killed 159 people on the island of Hawaii. In the ...
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 ...
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 ...