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Warnings, advisories and watches were issued in Alaska, Hawaii, California, Oregon and Washington after a magnitude 8.8 ...
A volcano in eastern Russia erupted for the first time in 475 years, prompting a tsunami warning. The Krasheninnikov volcano ...
Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and surrounding Pacific Rim regions continued to experience seismic instability, with dozens of ...
Tsunami warnings prompted gridlocked traffic as people tried to reach higher elevations in Hawaii, but the threat level was ...
A tsunami warning is the most severe type of emergency alert. In Hawaii, sirens and text messages alerted residents that a ...
According to the NWS tsunami warning system, the earthquake occurred off the east coast of Kamchatka, Russia, around 7:24 p.m ...
A Crescent City dock sustained nearly $1 million in damages after it was struck by a tsunami generated by a massive 8.8 magnitude quake that struck off the coast of Russia Tuesday, according to city ...
After that disaster, in 1949 the United States established the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), the first of its kind, to provide early warnings to populations around the Pacific. It was a ...
Chile and Ecuador order evacuations after Russian earthquake triggers Pacific-wide tsunami alerts. US and Japan downgrade ...
Crescent City, often dubbed a "tsunami magnet," recorded waves of up to 1.22 metres (4 feet) early on Wednesday. These were the highest observed anywhere in the continental United States following an ...