Feb. 27—As coastal towns work to build evacuation towers — or ponder over them — and relocate schools and buildings with hopes of surviving a tsunami, the only escape for some communities, as it ...

Oregon, Washington, and California have been upgraded from a tsunami watch to a tsunami advisory after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Peninsula in ...

Washington officials believe 8,000 people would die as a result of an earthquake-driven tsunami after a magnitude 9 quake hits off the coast. The reason is many low-lying communities are without easy ...

All tsunami alerts for Washington state have been canceled, according to a National Weather Service bulletin posted at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, July 30. The state's outer coast had been under a tsunami ...

Columbia Memorial Hospital near Oregon's coastline is forging ahead with emergency plans in case of a major earthquake or ...

Officials cancelled a tsunami advisory in Washington state at around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to a Facebook post from the Washington Emergency Management Division. An magnitude 8.8 earthquake ...

SEATTLE — A Tsunami Advisory has been canceled for coastal communities in Washington state following a massive earthquake in Russia on Tuesday night. The 8.8 quake hit in the Far East region off of ...

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 ...

Registered nurses at Seattle Children's 'overwhelmingly' authorize potential strike Registered nurses at Seattle Children’s Hospital have voted by a wide margin to authorize a strike if the hospital ...

As temperatures rise across Washington state, tourism to oceanfront spots will continue to increase, too. But visitors to the Evergreen State’s Pacific Ocean coast should be familiar with the state’s ...