A major earthquake off the coast of Alaska could trigger a tsunami flooding San Francisco's Embarcadero. But the main sensors designed to provide warnings for such a tsunami will soon go dark.

Nine earthquake monitoring stations in Alaska are set to go dark, leaving tsunami forecasters without important data to assess risks for the West Coast.

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