NORTH BEND, Ore. — Many communities across the west coast braced for a tsunami advisory after an underwater volcano exploded near the island nation of Tonga over the weekend. With several recent earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean, one coastal town is ...
CURRY COUNTY, Ore.– Tsunami sirens will no longer be used by Curry County. That’s after a recent vote by the county board of commissioners. According to Curry County Emergency Management, most of the sirens have stopped working and new technology ...
Brookings, Ore.- A tsunami watch was declared in coastal towns in Oregon Tuesday morning, prompted by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake off the coast of Alaska. Brookings was one of those cities that received the alert and while it only lasted ...
SEASIDE, Ore. – Thousands of people in and around the town of Seaside were warned a tsunami was about to strike their town, but it turned out to be a mistake. On January 3, the City of Seaside conducted a ...
(NBC News) The most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in a century struck off the country’s southern coast early Friday, killing at least six people and prompting warnings it could trigger tsunami waves up to 10 feet high. The quake ...
Nikol’skoye, Russia – Oregon coastlines are not in danger of a tsunami after an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.8 struck east of Russia. However, tsunami watches were issued for some areas in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, according to the ...
(CNN) — A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit close to the Solomon Islands early Friday (12:38 p.m. ET Thursday), putting that nation and others in the South Pacific on alert for tsunami waves. “Based on all available data, a tsunami may have ...
Update (03/22 11:15am) — According to Oregon Parks and Recreation, the bow-section of a drifting boat came ashore north of Coos Bay on Tuesday. Winds and currents pushed the debris north of where it was originally predicted to go. The ...
Crescent City, Cali. — It’s been 5 years since a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, killing more than 15,000 people. The resulting tsunami battered the Japanese coast, before making it’s way here where dozens of boats ...