NOAA has two tsunami warning centers, which were established decades ago after tsunamis killed over 100 people. One located in Alaska alerts places along the West Coast, Alaska and Canada and the ...

After NOAA abruptly cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations ...

Tsunamis are notoriously difficult to spot on the open ocean as they race towards shore. But in the summer of 2025, ...

Funding and staffing cuts are shuttering the monitoring stations that sustain this life-saving early warning system.

NOAA’s $300,000 funding cut will close nine tsunami warning stations in Alaska, raising concerns about slower alerts and ...

Japanese authorities issued a tsunami alert for the northeast of the country on Sunday after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake was ...

Nine earthquake monitoring stations in Alaska are set to go dark, leaving tsunami forecasters without important data to ...

When an earthquake threatens to turn part of an ocean into fast-moving walls of water, tsunami warning scientists can do nothing for the first five minutes except wait for information. But within the ...

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 ...

Direct feeds from seismology stations across Alaska are expected to stop in mid-November, state officials say.