Early 2026 has brought renewed scrutiny to how Earth-observing satellites register extreme ocean events. Widely circulated ...

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 ...

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

After surging through the Pacific Ocean, a massive tsunami crashed into Hawaii in 1946, killing 159 people and destroying hundreds of buildings. It was the deadliest such event in modern U.S. history ...

This image captures the modeled propagation of the tsunami wave generated by an 8.8 magnitude megathrust earthquake off the coast of Kamchatcka, Russia on July 29,2025. When an 8.8 magnitude ...

Nine seismic stations in Alaska are set to go dark this month, leaving tsunami forecasters without important data used to determine whether an earthquake will send a destructive wave barreling toward ...

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.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ended a contract with the Alaska Earthquake Center that helped maintain some seismic stations and transmit data in real time. Alaska state ...

You might think that when a tsunami takes place, such a huge wave would be obvious, but the sea can be mysterious, the kind of enigma that HP Lovecraft once wrote about when he penned a line about the ...

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. No deaths have been reported from tsunami waves in ...