A "megathrust" earthquake and tsunami would devastate the Northwest United States, a geologic region of the Pacific Ocean's "Ring of Fire" called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where major tectonic ...

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 ...

Within minutes, tsunami sirens blared and 2,700 residents evacuated to higher ground. Waves up to 5 meters high inundated the ...

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

It's been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, but funding has been cut.

America's early warning system for devastating natural disasters is about to go dark, leaving millions of people without ...

The World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Education has returned to Aotearoa for the first time in 20 years.

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

Tobin said neither the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network nor the Alaska Earthquake Center saw this coming. However, NOAA and ...

In the summer of 2022, 20 islands in the Maldives were flooded when a distant swell event in the Indian Ocean coincided with ...

Northeastern Japan is prone to earthquakes, including a triple disaster of a quake, tsunami and a nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, just south of Iwate, in March 2011, that killed nearly 20,000 people, ...

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 ...