When a massive earthquake hits, the shifting seafloor can trigger a series of large, powerful waves. Coastal California residents were ordered to evacuate Tuesday, July 29, following a huge undersea quake off Russia’s eastern coast — prompting a flurry ...

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PACIFICA, Calif. (KRON) — San Francisco Bay Area surfers were unfazed Wednesday by a tsunami alert issued for the entire coast of California. A tsunami advisory was triggered by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Eastern Russia Tuesday afternoon.

The speed and reliability of tsunami forecasts may soon benefit from work performed on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) supercomputer El Capitan, buying more time for coastal communit

No one died in Washington, though four members of the McKinzie family from Tacoma drowned while camping on a beach in Newport, Oregon. A woman in Gearhart, Oregon, died of a heart attack after a wave hit her home, and 11 people died in Crescent City, California. The quake and tsunami killed 115 people in Alaska.