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On December 3, Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski declared a state of emergency for Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook, and Yamhill counties. [18] On December 11, the Oregon Department of Transportation closed U.S. Route 30 five miles (8 km) west of Clatskanie due to landslide danger by debris-clogged Tansy Creek. [23]
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.
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 .
Hunter Creek is an unincorporated community in Curry County, Oregon, United States. [1] It lies on the east side of U.S. Route 101 south of Gold Beach along the Pacific coast. [ 2 ] Hunter Creek, a stream with the same name, flows by the community before entering the Pacific Ocean slightly west of Route 101.
USS Astoria. Two U.S. Navy cruisers were named USS Astoria: A New Orleans-class heavy cruiser (CA-34) and a Cleveland class light cruiser (CL-90). The former was lost in the Pacific Ocean in combat at the Battle of Savo Island in August 1942, during World War II, [97] and the latter was scrapped in 1971 after being removed from active duty in ...
No tsunami warnings are currently in effect as a result of the quakes. The largest of the quakes , which registered at 5.0 magnitude, struck about 72 miles off the coast, just west of Barview, Oregon.
Cellphones in the coast regions of Northern California and Southern Oregon rang out with an “Emergency Alert” at 10:51 a.m. PST. Tsunami warning issued for California, Oregon coasts after 7.0 ...
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 ...