Category Tsunami Alert

Tsunami Threat Forces Evacuations After 8.0 Chile Quake

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued an expanding regional tsunami warning and watch for parts of the Pacific located closer to the magnitude 8.0 earthquake off the coast of Northern Chile.   The Center reports an evaluation of the…

In Hawaii, Hints Of A Giant Alaska Tsunami Clues from a crater-like sinkhole on the island of Kauai point back to a giant wave that came from Alaska at about the time European explorers were pushing west, seeing the Mississippi…

MAGNITUDE 7.8 – SCOTIA SEA Subject to change Depth: 10 km Distances: 893km (555mi) SW of Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 1440km (895mi) SE of Ushuaia, Argentina 1686km (1048mi) SE of Punta Arenas, Chile 1709km (1062mi)…