Anthony Prieto, a maintenance crew leader with the city’s Public Works Department, installed the first “Entering Tsunami Hazard Zone” sign, at La Marina and Shoreline Drive. In the next ...

On blue-and-white signs, a cartoon wave curls out of the sea, capital letters blaring: TSUNAMI HAZARD ZONE. Harbingers of a future disaster are always in the periphery, staked next to highways ...

But if you don't have prior knowledge of whether you're in a tsunami hazard zone, and no maps or evacuation signs are available, aim for spots 100 feet above sea level and as far as two miles ...