Last week, about 60 miles off the coast near Ferndale, California, the tectonic plates shifted under the Pacific Ocean, sending seismic waves through the ocean floor that radiated onto land and were ...

The Pacific West Coast has the highest risk levels of tsunamis in the United States. Here’s where they have stuck in Northern ...

The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along a stretch of the West Coast — from No ...

Japan’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake that set off a devastating tsunami in 2011, sending walls of water washing over coastal ...

I featured an article about the recent earthquake activity in the western U.S. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, on Thursday, Dec. 5, a strong 7.0 magnitude quake was reported off the Northern ...

A rare and brief tsunami warning tested city and county responses in Northern California after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake ...

The agency estimated than more than 1.3 million people lived close enough to the quake to feel its impact. There were no ...

In previous tsunami alerts, such as the one in 2011 that came after the massive Fukushima earthquake in Japan, scientists ...

The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning. Here are some things ...

The warning was issued after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake was recorded off the coast of northern California at 10:45 a.m. Thursday. It was lifted just before noon.

The worst tsunami to hit the Bay Area was triggered in 1964 by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska, Geist says, that killed ...

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