One of the major causes of casualties was that people in certain areas were not alerted of the incoming wall of water. Now, ...

Thursday, Nov. 5 is World Tsunami Awareness Day. As an exercise, I did a search for the word “tsunami” in the news. The posts fell into three categories: recent tsunamis, potentially ...

Rare “tsunami earthquakes”, while just medium-sized as earthquakes go, cause disproportionately large and devastating tsunamis. News Sports Politics Outdoors Life Advertise Obituaries ...

Scientists may have discovered a new ally in efforts to keep ... In a study now under review in ... How commercial vessels could become tsunami early-warning systems (2020, December ...

Following a Magnitude 7.4 earthquake Tuesday night south of Chignik, the National Tsunami Warning Center has issued a warning for coastal Alaska from Kennedy Entrance, 40 miles southwest of Homer ...

Kodiak has heard the wail of sirens every Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. for decades. They sound like something out of an old, World War II movie – a weekly test of a warning system to signal households ...

This week marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the ...

A tsunami that swept across Papua New Guinea in 1998 killed 75 percent of the vulnerable population. And the 2004 tsunami killed 90 percent — or 130,000 people — in the heavily impacted parts ...