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California harbor suffers close to $1 million in damage from tsunami waves
Crescent City — one of California’s northernmost towns and Del Norte County ’s lone city — took a close-to-$1 million hit to ...
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Tsunami waves reach SoCal coast after massive Russia quake; tsunami watch canceled
A tsunami advisory was downgraded to a watch and then completely canceled for the Southern California coast after a massive ...
Tsunami Waves Reach California as Officials Warn People to Avoid Beaches
Waves were reported along a wide swath of the Northern California coast, including in San Francisco. The rest of the state ...
A tiny California city prone to tsunamis saw the highest waves in continental US after quake
Officials are warning people to stay away from beaches and waterways in a small California city near the border with Oregon ...
Why are tsunamis so different from other waves? Here's how.
While ocean waves are typically generated by wind and are relatively shallow, Tsunamis triggered by earthquakes move the ...
What is a tsunami? How these powerful waves spell coastal danger
Tsunamis can travel thousands of kilometres across the ocean after an earthquake, volcanic eruption, or landslide ...
Chile raises its tsunami warning to highest level for most of Pacific coast
Tsunami waves hit Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast on Wednesday after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's ...
130 foot waves. A nuclear disaster. Comparing Japan's 2011 tsunami to today's
The earthquake was powerful. One of the strongest ever recorded. Unlike 2011's Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, there ...