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Following last week's tsunami warning, the Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services (OES) issued a statement, explaining ...

Tsunami alerts popping up on islanders’ cell phones the evening of July 29 caused some panic and confusion. The advisories ...

Tsunamis are rare but the risk is real. Learn which U.S. coasts face the most risk and how to protect your home.

The last week of July 2025 was big news for earthquakes. Last Wednesday, a super strong 8.8 magnitude earthquake was reported near Russia’s eastern shores. It was near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia ...

Daniel Eungard gets a handful of tsunami alerts each month because of his job running the tsunami hazards program for the Washington Geological Survey. Most of them are nothing.

If you’re in Ocean Shores, or if you’re in parts of Westport, the evacuation time is 30 minutes, 60 minutes on foot, to high ...

Idaho State University students presented their Emergency Management Case Studies Symposium Thursday night. As part of their ...

Russ Lewis drives along Long Beach Peninsula as he searches for garbage to clean up in Pacific County, Wash., Monday, June 17 ...

When tsunami waves arrived, they didn’t cause devastation or deaths in the U.S. That doesn’t mean they didn’t pose a risk, ...

After a tsunami advisory in WA, many are asking how much warning time we’d get if a major earthquake and tsunami were to ...