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The tsunami triggered by the 2011 Japan earthquake rippled across the entire Pacific Ocean wreaking havoc in Santa Cruz harbour to the south of San Francisco, leaving heavy damage.
As their phones blew up with disaster warnings, some Bay Area residents ran for the hills – while others faced death with a shrug. Io Dodds reports on the fear and the farce of the great tsunami ...
The warning included the San Francisco Bay area. At 11:54 a.m. PST, the tsunami warning was canceled by the National Tsunami Warning Center after it was determined the earthquake did not generate ...
An offshore epicenter is supported by the occurrence of a local tsunami recorded by a tide gauge at the San Francisco Presidio; the wave had an amplitude of approximately 3 inches (7.6 cm) and an approximate period of 40–45 minutes.
While the 1812 San Juan Capistrano, 1857 Fort Tejon, and 1872 Owens Valley shocks were in mostly unpopulated areas and only moderately destructive, the 1868 Hayward event affected the thriving financial hub of the San Francisco Bay Area, with damage from Santa Rosa in the north to Santa Cruz in the south.
The tsunami was recorded along the coast of California and Hawaii. The tsunami reached 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in Surf, while at Port San Luis , the sea receded by 2 m (6 ft 7 in) before rising. In Los Angeles, an unusual but non-destructive high tide was observed one hour after the earthquake. [ 6 ]
In San Francisco, fire crews drove up and down the beaches shouting for people to "clear the beach, tsunami warning." Dan Beniflah was walking his dog on the beach before the fire crews arrived.
The San Andreas Fault system (SAF) is a network of right-lateral strike-slip faults that form a portion of a large complex and diffuse plate boundary. The faults span on and off shore along the California portion of the Pacific Rim, and in the area near San Francisco Bay, the extent of the various fault strands are limited to about 80 kilometers (50 mi) wide from east to west.