The presentation focused on two scenarios that pose the greatest risk to the area: a distant tsunami generated by an earthquake in the Pacific Ocean, and a local tsunami caused by a significant ...

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.

Posted: November 22, 2025 | Last updated: November 22, 2025 Real-time tsunami alerts are expected to go silent starting next month, delaying the lifesaving messaging systems, after funding cuts 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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Coastal residents, including in Oregon and Washington, are expected to stop seeing real-time tsunami alerts by next month. Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell has revealed that nine ...

Tsunami warnings that could affect the Washington coast may now take longer to reach the public. Alaska State Seismologist Michael West told KIRO Newsradio Tuesday that the National Oceanic and ...

An earthquake powerful enough to rank among the top 10 strongest earthquakes on record struck off the coast of Russia on July 29, triggering a series of tsunami warnings and watches. The earthquake ...

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 ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula sent a wave of water racing at the speed of a jetliner toward Hawaii, California and Washington state, spurring warnings and ...