The Record Breaking Chilean Earthquake 5, commonly referred to as the Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean earthquake. It ...

A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan injuring more than 20 people and triggering a tsunami in Pacific coast communities, officials said. Initial tsunami waves are confirmed to ...

A NASA satellite captured what no one expected: a massive Pacific tsunami unfolding in real-time, revealing wave behavior scientists thought impossible. Instead of a clean, cohesive wavefront, the ...

Decisions being made in the other Washington regarding the fate of nine unassuming and relatively inexpensive pieces of technology in Alaska will make our region less nimble in reacting to ...

UC San Diego seismologist Alice Gabriel was one researcher on a multi-institution team that won supercomputing's most lauded prize last week for its studies on a real-time tsunami monitoring prototype ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared on Politifact. What does it mean when a warning label is removed from a medication after two decades? But the science wasn’t so clear cut. The study that drove the ...

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, is demanding answers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after the agency cut funding for real-time tsunami alerts for West Coast states.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — As Franco Parisi tells it, he has suddenly become the most sought-after man in Chile. A populist economist who placed third in Chile’s presidential election last weekend, Parisi ...

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 ...