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.

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

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 ...