On Your Own Against The Sea: Tsunami Data Funding Cancelled In Alaska

 NOAA Has Lost A Contract That Accurately Monitors Tsunami Danger 

A tsunami warning sign in downtown Seward. There are similar signs in Valdez. (Photo by Copper River Country Journal) 

The Alaska Earthquake Center, which collects vital data from seismology stations around Alaska, has lost its monitoring contract. 

When an earthquake strikes with the potential to bring on a deadly tsunami, or tidal wave, a statewide warning system goes out, almost instantly, to warn the public. 

This is now apparently a thing of the past. Data will stop coming in by mid-November, in about a week or so.