America's early warning system for devastating natural disasters is about to go dark, leaving millions of people without ...

Located just 42 miles northeast of Anchorage in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley (or Mat-Su Valley to locals), Palmer offers that rare combination of accessibility and escape that’s harder to find than a ...

Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park provides another outdoor haven just a short drive from downtown Kodiak. This former World War II coastal defense installation now serves as a peaceful park where ...

Over the past few generations, the world has experienced countless devastating natural disasters; but few are as sudden and ...

Tobin said neither the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network nor the Alaska Earthquake Center saw this coming. However, NOAA and ...

If a tsunami early-warning system safeguarded Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, would its funding be cut? Answers to hypothetical questions usually stay in the realm of imagination. What we do ...

Tsunami warnings that could affect the Washington coast may now take longer to reach the public. Alaska State Seismologist ...

A 1958 landslide triggered a 1,720-foot mega wave in Lituya Bay, Alaska, erasing forests, sinking boats, and rewriting ...

NOAA cuts have left the western seaboard without a crucial resource to measure, understand and predict tsunamis ...

NOAA did not renew a contract that supported a handful of seismic stations in Alaska. This could hamper tsunami warnings for ...

After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking ...

Funding and staffing cuts are shuttering the monitoring stations that sustain this life-saving early warning system.