Amelia Templeton / OPB The tsunami advisory along the Oregon and Washington coasts was lifted Wednesday morning, following a quake off the coast of Russia Tuesday. But the alert spurred plenty of ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — Residents of this small coastal city in the Pacific Northwest know what to do when there’s a tsunami warning: Flee to higher ground. For those in or near Columbia Memorial, the city’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Tsunami Advisory was removed for the Oregon and Washington coasts Wednesday morning after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off ...

Although the tsunami advisory for the Oregon Coast was lifted by Wednesday afternoon, state and local officials are continuing to urge residents and visitors to stay out of the water. Emergency ...

During a Monday hearing of the House Interim Committee On Emergency Management and Veterans, Reps. David Gomberg and Paul Evans said Oregon’s lack of preparedness showed during July’s tsunami advisory ...

SALEM, Ore — Although the tsunami advisory for the Oregon Coast was lifted by Wednesday afternoon, state and local officials are continuing to urge residents and visitors to stay out of the water.

Eight years ago, Erik Thorsen — CEO of Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria, Ore. — received a warning that no hospital administrator wants to hear: A big earthquake could cause his hospital's ...

Oregon state Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, has been introducing legislation to modernize the state’s emergency preparedness and response processes for years. He called the state’s tsunami warnings last ...

A large dock that floated ashore on an Oregon beach was torn loose from a port in Japan by last year's tsunami and drifted across thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean, a state official said Wednesday.

Oregon needs more shelters like the one that Columbia Memorial is building, emergency managers say. Hospitals in the region are likely to incur serious damage, if not ruin, and could take more than ...