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Large swaths of the area around Humboldt Bay, including Eureka and the Samoa peninsula, are included in the tsunami hazard zone. Comprehensive maps can also be found at the website of the Redwood ...
A map shows California’s tsunami hazard area, which is highlighted in yellow. Tsunamis are among the most infrequent of Earth’s natural hazards but preparedness remains critical (California ...
A 2021 map shows the impact of a tsunami hitting the San Fransisco area - and the devastation it could cause. The map was thrust back into the spotlight Thursday when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake ...
Prior to the 1980s, scientists thought that the subduction zone did not generate earthquakes like other subduction zones around the world, but research by Brian Atwater and Kenji Satake tied together evidence of a large tsunami on the Washington coast with documentation of an orphan tsunami in Japan (a tsunami without an associated earthquake ...
The last tsunami to hit California was in January, after a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific Ocean near Tonga sent 2-foot tsunami waves barreling through the Bay Area more than 5,000 miles away.
The Seattle Fault is a zone of multiple shallow east–west thrust faults that cross the Puget Sound Lowland and ... Tsunami Hazard Map of the Elliott Bay Area (NOAA)
USGS map showing faults that span the Pacific–North America plate boundary. The Hayward Fault Zone is a right-lateral strike-slip geologic fault zone capable of generating destructive earthquakes. The fault was first named in the Lawson Report of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake in recognition of its involvement in the earthquake of 1868. [1]
The California Geological Survey releases tsunami hazard maps for Ventura, San Diego, Marin, Napa, Santa Cruz, Solano and Sonoma counties to help residents understand risks.