A major earthquake off the coast of Alaska could trigger a tsunami large enough to flood San Francisco's Embarcadero and the Oakland airport. But later this month, the main earthquake sensors designed ...

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 ...

Wednesday, Nov. 5 is World Tsunami Awareness Day. Humboldt and Del Norte counties have experienced two tsunami warnings in the last year and it’s clear from our experiences in these events, we’ve got ...

Tsunami warnings for Oregonians will remain unaffected, for now, after an Alaska earthquake center decided to backfill federal cuts to an alert system that helps Pacific coast states, including Oregon ...

Millions of people along the coasts of the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and Alaska rely on tsunami warnings to tell them that potentially dangerous waves are coming, sometimes in a matter of minutes.

In Alaska, a federal grant that funded seismic data collection in order to warn people about tsunamis is being cancelled. Experts say cuts like this could make tsunami warnings less reliable. Millions ...