AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoTsunami Readiness: A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Panama briefly raised Pacific tsunami fears, but the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center reported no threat to American Samoa. Ocean Monitoring: NOAA awarded more than $4 million for Pacific Islands coastal observing in fiscal 2027, supporting PacIOOS’s buoys and other systems that inform forecasts, navigation and hazard planning. Cybersecurity: Attackers who hijacked DNS records in American Samoa’s .as domain obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for Google and other sites; Google said its own systems were not breached and the certificates were blocked. Seabed Research: A USGS expedition off American Samoa used an underwater robot to survey the deep seafloor and collect samples, testing whether radon can help identify mineral-rich areas. Fishing Science: NOAA Fisheries, local officials and fishermen completed a bottomfish survey to improve knowledge of species vital to local diets and livelihoods. Mining Debate: A lawsuit challenges federal approval steps for a proposed seabed-mining lease covering more than 31 million acres off American Samoa, arguing that protected species and environmental impacts were not adequately assessed.
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