A massive tsunami generated just offshore could turn large stretches of the U.S. Pacific coastline into a disaster zone within minutes, overwhelming cities, ports and highways that now sit comfortably ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake rocked Northern Japan early Monday and triggered a tsunami warning along its coast, but the Pacific Northwest shouldn’t be concerned. According to ...
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, is demanding answers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) after ...
SEATTLE — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ended a contract with the Alaska Earthquake Center that helped maintain some seismic stations and transmit data in real time. Alaska state ...
SEATTLE (AP) - A Seattle oceanographer says some debris from Japan's tsunami and earthquake may wash up on the West Coast in about one to three years. Curt Ebbesmeyer says how fast the flotsam arrives ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will stop providing real-time seismic data to deliver timely and accurate tsunami warnings for the entire west coast by the end of November. The ...