The Shoalwater Bay Tribe is getting $2.5 million to build a tsunami vertical evacuation tower on its land south of Westport. The FEMA grant will allow the tribe to build a tower that can hold 386 ...
Columbia Memorial Hospital near Oregon’s coastline planned to add a tsunami shelter, counting on a FEMA grant. After the Trump administration cut the funding, hospital officials are building anyway, ...
A group of civil engineers from around the western U.S. is developing additions to the building code to address the threat of a tsunami. The engineers are taking into account the impact of the tsunami ...
An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck Indonesia on Thursday, killing one, damaging some buildings and triggering tsunami ...
The tsunami shelter is budgeted at about $20 million, for which FEMA’s BRIC program awarded nearly $14 million, with a $6 million matching grant from the state, which has maintained its support. The ...
Residents of this small coastal city in the Pacific Northwest know what to do when there's a tsunami warning: Flee to higher ground. For those in or near Columbia Memorial, the city's only hospital, ...