North Portland resident Ali Ryan demystifies packing an emergency survival kit, drawing on her experience working for Oregon's geology agency.

A Mukilteo company designed a pod that’s an all-inclusive emergency kit and tsunami shelter. Survival Capsule aims to help residents wait out the devastating waves.

MANZANITA, Ore. — The Ocean Inn hotel in Manzanita has started providing tsunami "Go Bags" survival kits for its guests who may suddenly have to evacuate. In a Facebook post by the Emergency ...

After years of extensive prototyping and testing, three production models of the two-person capsule were shipped to Japan in February, with the ultimate goal of sending more capsule “kits” to be ...

MUKILTEO — Two years ago, aerospace engineers Julian Sharpe and Scott Hill were working on a design for a tsunami survival capsule after witnessing the damage inflicted by a massive 9.0 ...

The public should prepare survival kits and learn basic earthquake-survival techniques, as earthquake and tsunami risks are ...

A former Boeing engineer, who on an Oregon beach visualized a floating metal sphere that could protect its occupants during a tsunami, this week shipped three production models to Japan. Survival ...

How's this for emergency preparedness? An elementary school located in the tsunami inundation zone in Cannon Beach, Oregon, has equipped every student with a personal disaster survival kit. This ...

After a frightening article a few weeks ago in The New Yorker magazine about a potentially devastating earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, there's been a run on survival supplies there. NPR talks ...

Photograph of Beverly Goodman by Howie Goodman Editor's Note: In light of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan and possible future events along the Pacific Coasts, we're sharing some ...