Funding and staffing cuts are shuttering the monitoring stations that sustain this life-saving early warning system.
A major earthquake off the coast of Alaska could trigger a tsunami flooding San Francisco's Embarcadero. But the main sensors designed to provide warnings for such a tsunami will soon go dark.
"It's fair to say that Alaska is California's biggest tsunami threat," said Michael West, director of Alaska Earthquake ...
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Thursday morning caused the National Weather Service to issue a since-cancelled tsunami warning for Alaska's Aleutian Islands. File ...
An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.
NOAA’s $300,000 funding cut will close nine tsunami warning stations in Alaska, raising concerns about slower alerts and ...
A tsunami advisory was issued for parts of Alaska on Sept. 18 following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the eastern coast of Russia. The advisory, the second highest warning level, covers the Western ...
A tsunami advisory briefly in effect for a portion of the Aleutian Islands was canceled just after 1 p.m. in Alaska. The advisory was issued in the wake of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck off ...
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region near Russia on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting tsunami advisories for parts of Alaska. Initially, there was a ...