Kodiak emergency officials will consider a new policy to standardize how and when the island’s outdoor tsunami warning sirens are activated.

The sirens aren’t activated for all emergencies. For example, they didn’t sound during the Crater Road blaze in July 2024, which burned nearly 600 acres of open land and triggered advisories to ...

Deficiencies in managing the tsunami threat to Hawaii last month are leading to planned improvements that include manual traffic intersection management, fewer broken warning sirens and safety ...

A powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake has rocked Russia’s Far East, shaking the Kamchatka region in the early hours of the morning. Described as an aftershock of July’s massive 8.8 quake, this tremor ...

The earth just trembled all around you - is a tsunami now on its way? What you should do on holiday near the coast if there's a risk of a tsunami. Till Simon Nagel/dpa You're enjoying a holiday under ...

The Washington Emergency Management Division has scheduled the Great Washington ShakeOut at 10:16 a.m. Thursday.

JUNEAU, Alaska -- A reported 7.5 magnitude earthquake off the Alaska Peninsula on Monday prompted tsunami warnings for a vast swath of communities, leading some schools to evacuate and send students ...