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On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake struck near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, triggering a tsunami that barreled across the Pacific and killed 159 people on the island of Hawaii. In the aftermath of this catastrophe, the U.S. tsunami warning system was born.
Nearly 80 years later, this life-saving network of seismic and sea-level monitoring stations is crumbling. Overseen by NOAA, the stations rely on federal funding that the Trump administration slashed this year. As a result,…
