Japan’s Tohoku University has been developing a unique disaster-prevention system through its Tsunami Balloon Project.

Nine seismic stations in Alaska are set to go dark this month, leaving tsunami forecasters without important data used to determine whether an earthquake will send a destructive wave barreling toward ...

At present, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information and Services (INCOIS) receives earthquake signals and processes its tsunami potential at its Hyderabad centre.

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Far out along the rocky cliffs of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, seismic technology works to detect tremors that could cause a devastating tsunami. But now nine of those stations are expected to be ...

Bill would boost NOAA’s tsunami preparedness budget by 35%, require planning for a Pacific Northwest megaquake Read Story ...

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Tsunami Warning and Preparedness explores the advances made and challenges that still remain in tsunami detection and preparedness. The book describes areas of research and development that would ...

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Sept. 18 off Russia's Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region briefly triggered a tsunami advisory for Alaska's Aleutian Islands. However, the advisory for Alaska has ...