On July 29th, a Pacific Basin-wide tsunami alert was issued after an 8.8. earthquake off Russia, causing concern and some confusion across the globe. If you get an alert, during the middle of the ...

On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake struck near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, triggering a tsunami that barreled across the Pacific and killed 159 people on the island of Hawaii. In the ...

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The country's meteorological service issued a Tsunami Warning across the whole island chain and urged people to evacuate to higher ground. The warning was lifted about 2 hours after the quake and ...

Safety in tsunamis is all about one issue — evacuation. The whole point of a tsunami warning system is to get people out of harm’s way before tsunami surges reach them. There are two big pieces to the ...

A tsunami warning has been issued for the Philippines and Indonesia following a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the Mindanao region this morning. The Philippines' seismology agency has alerted ...

The official launch of Samoa’s Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme was honoured by the presence of the Honourable Prime Minister of the Independent State of Samoa, Hon. Laʻaulialemalietoa Leuatea ...

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