Residents of this small coastal city in the Pacific Northwest know what to do when there’s a tsunami warning: Flee to higher ground. For those in or near Columbia Memorial, the city’s only hospital, ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – If a tsunami is heading your way on the Oregon or Washington coast, you might not get the notification in time. Real-time tsunami alerts are expected to go silent starting next ...

Tsunami warnings for Oregonians will remain unaffected, for now, after an Alaska earthquake center decided to backfill federal cuts to an alert system that helps Pacific coast states, including Oregon ...

Millions of people along the coasts of the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and Alaska rely on tsunami warnings to tell them that potentially dangerous waves are coming, sometimes in a matter of minutes.

The quake struck at 0931 GMT in the Gulf of Alaska, 280 kilometers (175 miles) southeast of the town of Kodiak, the US Geological Survey said, revising a preliminary estimate of 8.2 magnitude. The ...

A 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon early Sunday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake happened around 1:57 a.m. and was ...