Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people ...

Funding and staffing cuts are shuttering the monitoring stations that sustain this life-saving early warning system.

NOAA has two tsunami warning centers, which were established decades ago after tsunamis killed over 100 people. One located in Alaska alerts places along the West Coast, Alaska and Canada and the ...

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

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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 ...

When an earthquake threatens to turn part of an ocean into fast-moving walls of water, tsunami warning scientists can do nothing for the first five minutes except wait for information. But within the ...

The Alaska Earthquake Center has long provided NOAA with seismic data for tsunami monitoring and warning purposes. That work will wind down in November, after the federal agency said it can no longer ...

Space weather forecasters have warned that the solar storm that erupted from the sun today could cause serious disruption to ...

As millions of Americans hit retirement age, most states are scrambling to keep up. The number of older Americans is growing faster than the country is prepared for, creating urgent challenges for ...