Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground ...

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the northern California coast near the town of Ferndale on Thursday morning, causing temporary tsunami warnings in California and Oregon.. Though the warning ...

On Jan. 26, 1700, an earthquake on the Cascadia fault caused the forest to lurch downward by more than 3 feet. Soon after, a tsunami perhaps 100 feet high barreled through at 20 or 30 mph.

A powerful magnitude-7.0 offshore earthquake in Northern California led to a brief tsunami warning Thursday morning for about 5 million people on the West Coast. Stream Los Angeles News for free ...

In San Francisco, a tsunami triggered by a large earthquake in Alaska would take approximately five hours to reach the city of over 800,000 residents, the 2021 maps showed.

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s heavily populated coastal communities.