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 ...

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

After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking ...

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 ...

Direct feeds from seismology stations across Alaska are expected to stop in mid-November, state officials say.

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