A 7.6 magnitude earthquake in northeast Japan triggered a tsunami of up to 40 centimeters (16 inches) in some coastal communities, but no tsunami warning was issued for the U.S. West Coast,

An earthquake that rocked Japan was not expected to create a tsunami capable of reaching the West Coast, California officials said.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A tsunami advisory was downgraded to a watch, and then completely lifted, for most of the Southern California coast after a massive earthquake near Russia. The advisory was in place for most of the night, with much of the California ...

UC San Diego seismologist Alice Gabriel was one researcher on a multi-institution team that won supercomputing’s most lauded prize last week for its studies on a real-time tsunami monitoring prototype.

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The speed and reliability of tsunami forecasts may soon benefit from work performed on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) supercomputer El Capitan, buying more time for coastal communit

No one died in Washington, though four members of the McKinzie family from Tacoma drowned while camping on a beach in Newport, Oregon. A woman in Gearhart, Oregon, died of a heart attack after a wave hit her home, and 11 people died in Crescent City, California. The quake and tsunami killed 115 people in Alaska.