Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting system—powered by El Capitan, the world's fastest supercomputer—that could ...

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 ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula recently triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific Ocean. It gave NASA scientists a real-world test of their new tsunami ...

Real-time tsunami alerts for the West Coast, including Oregon and Washington, are expected to end next month due to federal budget cuts, according to U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash, the Ranking ...

Pedestrian seriously injured in Southeast Portland hit-and-run crash A driver struck and seriously injured a pedestrian late Monday night in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood, and then drove away, ...

NOAA halted roughly $300,000 in grant funding that supports real-time seismic data used in tsunami warnings. The Alaska Earthquake Center (AEC) says it will stop delivering immediate data by the end ...