No one died in Washington, though four members of the McKinzie family from Tacoma drowned while camping on a beach in Newport ...

Real-time tsunami alerts are expected to go silent starting next month, delaying the lifesaving messaging systems, after funding cuts to nine of the Alaska Earthquake Center’s seismic stations at the ...

The United States is not expected to experience any tsunamis after a powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan on Dec. 8, ...

The Washington Emergency Management Division (EMD) has unveiled a comprehensive Tsunami Maritime Response and Mitigation ...

Washington officials believe 8,000 people would die as a result of an earthquake-driven tsunami after a magnitude 9 quake hits off the coast. The reason is many low-lying communities are without easy ...

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 ...

Real-time tsunami alerts for the West Coast, including Oregon and Washington, are expected to end next month due to federal budget cuts, according to U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash, the Ranking ...

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 ...

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake shook northern Japan on Dec. 8 and prompted a tsunami warning, officials said. The Japan ...