A new agreement between NOAA, the Alaska Mesonet and the seismic network operated by the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Alaska Earthquake Center (UAF AEC) is funding nine AEC-owned seismic stations that support near-real-time tsunami threat information. “Seismic stations are an important dataset for NOAA’s Tsunami Warning Centers to provide real-time warnings that save lives amid […]
WHEREAS, emergency preparedness at state, regional, and local levels is extremely vital for survival in times of crisis; and WHEREAS, Alaska is one of the world’s most seismically active regions and has the most coastline of any U.S. state, and its coastlines contain many communities that are vulnerable to tsunamis generated by earthquakes and […]
Washington, DC—Thursday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-AK), along with Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), introduced legislation that would strengthen infrastructure and warning systems for tsunamis in Alaska and across the country. The Tsunami Warning, Research, and Education Act of 2026 would reauthorize the Tsunami Warning and Education Act for five years. “When […]
The recent landslide-generated tsunami in Tracy Arm of Southeast Alaska recalls the granddaddy of them all: the giant wave that scarred Lituya Bay in 1958. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 miles southeast of Yakutat and 40 miles west of Glacier Bay, is the site of the largest splash wave ever recorded. In […]