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The extreme costs and death toll of recent floodings across Texas, New Mexico, and the Northeast have put into question the ...
This week marks the start of Long Beach's Tsunami Preparedness Week — a week spent raising awareness around a natural disaster that many don’t think of… ...
California’s 2025 Tsunami Preparedness Week is in the books. What did it accomplish? Three things I hope: a test of North Coast counties’ emergency notification system, an opportunity for ...
In a previous installment of this series, a colleague eloquently stated that education is our best ally for earthquake and tsunami preparedness in that knowledge of past events and understanding ...
The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program aimed to distribute billions of federal dollars to state and ...
The cost of repair or replacement has been estimated as high as $20 million, and cell phone alerts, while far from a perfect ...
The workshop reiterated the critical nature of sea-level data for tsunami early warning, enhancing safety of life and efficiency of maritime operations at critical infrastructure facilities, and ...
“The 2004 tsunami was a turning point in global disaster response, leading to groundbreaking efforts in disaster risk reduction and emergency preparedness. Today, communities in disaster-prone ...
A series of three earthquakes jolted the area near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky within a 32-minute window on Sunday. The most powerful of the tremors, originally measured at magnitude 7.4 and later ...
If faced with a real tsunami, you won’t want to drive. “There will be a traffic jam like you can’t believe,” Horning said. “It’ll be the mother of all traffic jams.
Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday announced the creation of a subcabinet group to boost disaster preparedness and improve the state’s ability to recover from a major earthquake and tsunami. The ...
A 2016 Washington State report on a tsunami preparedness exercise warned that, if a tsunami were to hit the area, "the response infrastructure [would be] severely damaged." ...