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

About 300 years have passed since anyone has known about Okinawa’s past climate and geological history. But researchers at ...

Demographers and urban planners are calling it the 'silver tsunami' — an ever-building wave of older residents. And Florida ...

A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the east coast of Russia on Wednesday morning triggered tsunami waves that reached Japan and Hawaii and the US coast. It is one of the strongest earthquakes ...

"It's fair to say that Alaska is California's biggest tsunami threat," said Michael West, director of Alaska Earthquake ...

This peaceful farming village sits tucked away in the lush Hamakua Coast hills. Rolling green pastures stretch as far as your eyes can see. Former sugar plantation lands now host small family farms ...

Liliuokalani Gardens is a beautiful Japanese garden perfect for peaceful walks when you need to slow down and breathe. The Merrie Monarch Festival happens every spring and brings hula dancers from ...

Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors (“hibakusha”) will attend Pearl Harbor memorial events on Dec. 7 and will meet with the public ...

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 ...

Japanese migration & Robert W. Irwin, ‘The Father of Japanese Immigration to Hawaii’ – Island History, Lifestyles | The ...