Santa Cruz’s first Race the Wave run, on Saturday, Sept. 13, aims to help the community envision and plan what to do in the event of a tsunami.

In 1946, the ocean water was displaced by a M8.6 earthquake near the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. The tsunami run-up, or maximum rise of the incoming water on-shore, reached 55 ft (17 m) in Hilo and ...

Unless otherwise mentioned, figures are from the California Tsunami Program, which is run by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the California Geological Survey.

Run, run is the warning in Japan.A major earthquake was recorded in Japan with strong aftershocks already following. Visitors in Japan are urged to turn on NHK and set the audio to the English ...

The March 26 tsunami drill will be at 11 a.m. and is for Humboldt, Del Norte and Mendocino counties. The drill urges residents to know their zone and to walk to higher ground if they live in a tsun… ...

A Kodiak woman died in a hit-and-run collision during Saturday’s tsunami warning and evacuation, amid a dense late-night flow of vehicle and pedestrian traffic to higher ground.. Kodiak police ...

There are now 60 DART buoys worldwide, and with more data, tsunami models can run in seconds, before a tsunami can hit, thereby saving many lives. Barry Hirshorn explains why an 8.5 quake is so ...

San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management previously used the sirens to run weekly tests at noon on Tuesdays. SF's emergency sirens were silent for a tsunami warning. Will they ever turn ...