The worst tsunami to hit the Bay Area was triggered in 1964 by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska, Geist says, that killed 11 people in Crescent City. That wave rolled in at just under 4 feet ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco Bay Area residents received a rare tsunami warning on Thursday when a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Northern California. The alert sent by the ...

Our guide on how to prepare for a tsunami alert as this year's Tsunami Preparedness Week approaches on March 22–30.

The risk of flooding from a major tsunami may be greater than many realized along California’s coastline, state officials reported in new study.

A hypothetical magnitude-9.3 earthquake near Alaska’s eastern Aleutian Islands could bring a damaging tsunami to the San Francisco Bay Area in about five hours, and to L.A. and Orange counties ...

Snider said this message is sent automatically via the Wireless Emergency Alert System following a tsunami warning. Meanwhile, some people in the Bay Area didn't get that alert on their phones ...

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As of 6:17 a.m., Bay Area Rapid Transit officials were keeping a close eye on the tsunami warning but had not yet cancelled any services, specifically the line between West Oakland and Daly City.

A Ph.D. scientist who issues tsunami alerts. A hurricane-hunting flight director. A researcher studying which communities will get flooded when a storm strikes. They were among the more than 600 ...

The advice given when there’s a long and strong earthquake is to “get gone” because of the potential tsunami risk, but would you know where to “get gone” to? That’s why this week Hawke ...

“In this area, everything had gone,” he recalls. Located on the shoreline of Otsuchi Bay in Iwate prefecture, the ICRC had been directly in the tsunami’s path. “The wave reached the third ...