The Northwest is itself overdue for a megaquake — one we are ready for on neither a personal nor political level.

Daniel Eungard gets a handful of tsunami alerts each month because of his job running the tsunami hazards program for the Washington Geological Survey. Most of them are nothing.

Amid a tsunami warning, the US Coast Guard launched a dramatic rescue operation at sea on Tuesday. A passenger on the cruise ship 'Carnival Legend' suffered a medical emergency. The ship was over 120 ...