A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula recently triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific Ocean. It gave NASA scientists a real-world test of their new tsunami ...
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 ...
When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were ...
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 ...
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting system — powered by El Capitan, the world’s fastest supercomputer — that ...
In late July, far from shore, off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, the ocean shifted after a powerful tremor, and something ...
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, is demanding answers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) after ...