A UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography seismologist has won an award often called the “Nobel Prize of supercomputing” for developing a real-time tsunami forecasting system. Alice Gabriel, ...

(FOX 5/KUSI) — A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake in northeast Japan on Monday morning prompted tsunami warnings in that country but is not expected to prompt the same on the U.S. West Coast. The ...

Summer Ohlendorf was born and raised in San Diego and now works as a seismologist at the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center, where she helped oversee the Tsunami alerts that went out Saturday.

UC San Diego seismologist Alice Gabriel was one researcher on a multi-institution team that won supercomputing’s most lauded prize last week for its studies on a real-time tsunami monitoring prototype ...