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

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

"It's fair to say that Alaska is California's biggest tsunami threat," said Michael West, director of Alaska Earthquake Center, which operates the stations in the Aleutian Islands that will be ...

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

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is halting a contract that makes it possible for the federal agency to accurately monitor for potential tsunamis in Alaska and quickly warn at-risk ...

NOAA cuts have left the western seaboard without a crucial resource to measure, understand and predict tsunamis ...

The earthquake in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula on July 30, 2025, may have been one of the most severe on record, with a magnitude of 8.8. But innovations in science and technology gave governments ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting system — powered by El Capitan, the world’s fastest supercomputer — that ...

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

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 ...

Within minutes, tsunami sirens blared and 2,700 residents evacuated to higher ground. Waves up to 5 meters high inundated the port and fish factory, but no lives were lost. The town's survival ...