Schools and residents in Keaukaha will take part in an evacuation exercise Friday “to strengthen resilience in the ...

Schools and residents in tsunami-vulnerable Keaukaha, Hilo, will conduct evacuation drills on Friday, Nov. 21, including ...

Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast.

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

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 ...

A few weeks ago, NOAA announced the cancellation of a contract with the Alaska Earthquake Center to operate nine seismic ...

I’ve been to the state more than 20 times, crisscrossing the archipelago in search of its lesser-known corners and staying at ...

A $300,000 grant cut to the Alaska Earthquake Center could force nine stations offline and delay warnings for Alaska, ...

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 ...