Oregon, Washington real-time tsunami alerts threatened due to federal funding cuts, lawmaker warns

A $300,000 grant cut to the Alaska Earthquake Center could force nine stations offline and delay warnings for Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii, the senator warns.
KUOW

Nine Alaska seismic stations to go dark in January, slowing West Coast tsunami alerts

No one died in Washington, though four members of the McKinzie family from Tacoma drowned while camping on a beach in Newport, Oregon. A woman in Gearhart, Oregon, died of a heart attack after a wave hit her home, and 11 people died in Crescent City, California. The quake and tsunami killed 115 people in Alaska.
Yahoo

One sent tsunami alerts. Another flew with 'hurricane hunters.' Both were just fired from NOAA.

Hundreds of demonstrators gather Monday to protest Department of Government Efficiency cuts outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring, Md. A scientist with a doctorate who issues tsunami alerts.

First detailed look at tsunami captured from space by NASA, CNSE satellite—here's why it matters

The fresh, detailed glimpse into the geophysical phenomenon came after NASA and CNSE's SWOT satellite captured the tsunami sparked by the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka peninsula on July 30 this year.
Times-Standard

Lori Dengler | NOAA’s tsunami program needs strengthening not budget slashing

It’s been a rough time for my colleagues at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Nearly 900 positions have been eliminated over the past two weeks, just over 7% of NOAA’s workforce, according to Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell.

NASA satellite captures first detailed overhead view of Pacific tsunami

A new study shares how scientists have gained an unprecedented look at how tsunami waves spread across the ocean.
WDRB

How 30 years of NOAA research led to one very accurate and timely tsunami forecast

This image captures the modeled propagation of the tsunami wave generated by an 8.8 magnitude megathrust earthquake off the coast of Kamchatcka, Russia on July 29,2025. When an 8.8 magnitude megathrust earthquake ripped along more than 360 miles of a ...
Orange County Register

NOAA’s uncertain future brings tsunami of worry for wildlife, ocean

When the Palisades fire raged and winds whipped ash and debris into the Pacific Ocean, scientists with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration — already out in boats doing water-quality surveys — quickly gathered tainted saltwater samples ...
Nextgov

NOAA revisits tsunami preparedness

With their attention now focused on boosting hurricane preparedness in the aftermath of Katrina, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials are also wrestling with thin preparedness for a potentially deadlier disaster -- a tsunami.
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