AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoTsunami Readiness: A magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Panama briefly raised Pacific tsunami concerns, but the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat to American Samoa. Ocean Monitoring: NOAA awarded the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System more than $4 million for fiscal 2027 to operate and modernize coastal monitoring, supporting hazard alerts, forecasts and safer navigation. Cybersecurity: Attackers who hijacked DNS records for American Samoa’s .as domain obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates, potentially enabling website impersonation; Google says its own systems were not breached and the certificates were blocked. Marine Research: NOAA Fisheries, local officials and fishermen completed a bottomfish survey to improve knowledge of culturally important species. Separately, USGS researchers collected deep-sea samples during an American Samoa expedition to test whether radon can help locate mineral deposits. Seabed Mining: A proposed lease sale covering more than 31 million acres off American Samoa faces a lawsuit challenging the federal review of potential impacts on protected species.
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