The service was timed to the two-year anniversary of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan, including the city of Misawa.

Scientists spent four years creating the 131 maps, which show tsunami inundation zones in the event of a distant tsunami and a local tsunami, such as one originating from the Cascadia Subduction ...

TILLAMOOK, Ore. – Many people on the Oregon and Washington coast were terrified early Tuesday morning after the Tsunami Warning Center placed them under a Tsunami Watch.The threat came after a 7 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After a tsunami advisory on the Oregon coast last month, KOIN 6 News checked in with Oregon State University about its vertical evacuation structure in Newport. First ...

NEWPORT, Ore. — With sunlight sparkling off surrounding Yaquina Bay, workers are putting up an ocean-studies building, smack in the middle of an area expected to one day be hit by a tsunami.

It triggered a devastating tsunami of 1965 that killed five people near Newport. “The Oregon Legislature made an investment in that system a couple of years ago to finish that buildout and ...

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) -- With sunlight sparkling off surrounding Yaquina Bay, workers are putting up an ocean-studies building, smack in the middle of an area expected to one day be hit by a tsunami.

The Oregon coast is undeniably alluring. Sandy beaches, rocky cliffs and outcroppings. Waterfalls, water spouts, sand dunes. Puffins, pelicans, cormorants. Elk and whales. In a state defined by ...

Tens of thousands of visitors have gone to see the Japanese dock, torn loose in the tsunami, that washed up near Newport, Ore., last week.

NEWPORT, Ore. — Oregon’s state geologist urged Oregon State University not to put a marine studies building in a tsunami zone south of Newport’s Yaquina Bay Bridge — or at least build it ...

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — With sunlight sparkling off surrounding Yaquina Bay, workers are putting up an ocean-studies building, smack in the middle of an area expected to one day be hit by a tsunami ...

It triggered a devastating tsunami of 1965 that killed five people near Newport. “The Oregon Legislature made an investment in that system a couple of years ago to finish that buildout and ...