After a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, tsunami alerts rippled out across Hawaii, Alaska, ...

Don’t get in your car during a tsunami warning.That was the key message at Wednesday’s Visitor Public Safety Conference, ...

Safety in tsunamis is all about one issue — evacuation. The whole point of a tsunami warning system is to get people out of harm’s way before tsunami surges reach them. There are two big pieces to the ...

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 ...

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.

SEATTLE — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ended a contract with the Alaska Earthquake Center that helped maintain some seismic stations and transmit data in real time. Alaska state ...