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

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network operates more than 600 seismic stations. The center in Alaska added an additional 250 ...

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 ...

If a tsunami early-warning system safeguarded Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, would its funding be cut? Answers to hypothetical questions usually stay in the realm of imagination. What we do ...

Tsunami warnings that could affect the Washington coast may now take longer to reach the public. Alaska State Seismologist ...

NOAA did not renew a contract that supported a handful of seismic stations in Alaska. This could hamper tsunami warnings for ...

Scientists working to enhance early warning systems for tsunamis originating from Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone, aiming to reduce the warning time to less than five minutes.

After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the ...

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 ...

Dozens of earthquakes struck near Japan on Monday following a cluster of seismic activity that rocked the area over the ...