Before, during and after the distant Kamchatka tsunami propelled 1-foot waves to Washington state, coastal communities here have been preparing for our own Big Rip someday. For instance, Westport, ...

“Losing nine seismic monitoring stations can provide a really big geographic gap, and then it may take minutes for other seismic monitoring stations that are located very far away, for the seismic ...

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 ...

Amid a Tsunami Advisory spawned by a massive earthquake off Russia, U.S. Coast Guard teams responded to a call for help off the coast of Washington state. According to the U.S. Coast Guard Northwest ...

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 ...

Update: The tsunami advisory for Washington and Oregon coasts was canceled at 10:20 a.m. Previous post: The National Weather service issued a tsunami advisory for the coast of Washington on Tuesday ...

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Sept. 18 off Russia's Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region briefly triggered a tsunami advisory for Alaska's Aleutian Islands. However, the advisory for Alaska has ...

When a massive earthquake hits, the shifting seafloor can trigger a series of large, powerful waves. Coastal Washington residents were on the lookout for a tsunami on Tuesday, July 29, following a ...

Columbia Memorial Hospital near Oregon's coastline is forging ahead with emergency plans in case of a major earthquake or ...

KUOW Photo/John Ryan It was just before midnight when the tsunami that started with an earthquake in Alaska’s Prince William Sound reached Washington state. The year was 1964. At La Push, a 7-foot ...