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  2. Where in Northern California is most at risk for tsunami ...

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    If you don’t know whether you’re in a tsunami hazard zone, and no maps or evacuation signs are available, officials recommend aiming for spots 100 feet above sea level and as far as two miles ...

  3. Researchers gain clearest picture yet of fault that threatens ...

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    A fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a major earthquake and tsunami. Researchers mapped it comprehensively for the first time.

  4. National Tsunami Warning Center - Wikipedia

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    The National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) is one of two tsunami warning centers in the United States, covering all coastal regions of the United States and Canada, except Hawaii, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Until 2013, it was known as the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.

  5. Astoria, Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Astoria is a port city and the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state and was the first permanent American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains . [ 6 ]

  6. 1700 Cascadia earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The most important clue linking the tsunami in Japan and the earthquake in the Pacific Northwest comes from studies of tree rings (dendrochronology), which show that several "ghost forests" of red cedar trees in Oregon and Washington, killed by lowering of coastal forests into the tidal zone by the earthquake, have outermost growth rings that formed in 1699, the last growing season before the ...

  7. A tsunami warning was issued Thursday morning following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck in Humboldt County, 7 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, Calif., the National Weather Service said in ...

  8. File:Astoria Oregon - OpenStreetMap.png - Wikipedia

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  9. 7.0 earthquake in Northern California knocks out power to ...

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    A tsunami warning was issued for the coast from Davenport, California, to the border between Douglas and Lane counties in Oregon. The Tsunami Warning Center canceled the warning at about 11:55 a.m .