Nine Alaska seismic stations to go dark in January, slowing West Coast tsunami alerts John Ryan December 05, 2025 / 5:25 pm

It was just before midnight when the tsunami that started with an earthquake in Alaska’s Prince William Sound reached Washington state.

The year was 1964.

At La Push, a 7-foot wave knocked boats and a dock loose from their moorings.

Floating logs battered oceanfront houses in Moclips, where an 11-foot wave flooded homes and swept several cars away.

At Pacific Beach, a married couple and their two grandchildren were rudely awakened when waves lifted their home off its foundation and shoved it 40 feet to the northwest.

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Two people suffered heart attacks in Copalis, where water swept nearly half a mile inland. A man stopped his car on the state Rou

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