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A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California at 10:44 a.m. PST, with shaking felt across the region. The epicenter was 39 miles west of Petrolia, California, and was very ...
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 .
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 ...
This is an alphabetically sorted list of cities and towns severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Cities and towns listed here reported at least US$ 100,000 in damage or at least one death.
On 31 December, 1703, an 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck Edo. A tsunami up to 11.7 metres (38 ft) high was recorded along the coast of the Kantō Region. Official reports put the death toll of the earthquake disaster at 5,233 people, but some estimates put it as high as 200,000. [84] 1707: Nankai, Japan: 1707 Hōei earthquake: Earthquake
Many villages on the islands were affected by the tsunami, which reached a height of 3 m (9 ft) and swept as far as 600 m (1800 ft) inland. The tsunami caused widespread destruction that displaced more than 20,000 people and affected about 4,000 households. 435 people were reported to have been killed, with over 100 more still missing. [3]
“It requires an 8.7 to get a tsunami all the way to Japan,” Tobin said. The people who recorded the incident in Japan couldn’t have known that the ground had shaken an ocean away, in the ...
[192] [193] In California and Oregon, up to 2.4 m-high (7.9 ft) tsunami waves hit some areas, damaging docks and harbors and causing over US$10 million in damage. [194] In Curry County, Oregon , US$7 million in damage occurred including the destruction of 1,100 m (3,600 ft) of docks at the Brookings harbor; the county received over US$1 million ...