Residents across California and the Pacific Northwest were alarmed on Thursday with a tsunami warning after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occured off the coast of Northern California.

A tsunami warning for the Northern California coast prompted by a major earthquake that struck in the ocean off Humboldt County Thursday morning has been lifted, officials said. The earthquake ...

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook a large area of Northern California on Thursday, prompting a brief tsunami warning for 5.3 million people along the U.S. West Coast.

On March 28, 1964, a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake in Alaska smashed into Crescent City hours later. Much of the business district was leveled and a dozen people were killed.

The agency started updating California's tsunami danger maps after 2011's Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami in Japan that killed approximately 15,000 people and caused massive damage, including to ...

Update 8:50 p.m. July 29: A magnitude 8.8 earthquake that occurred at 4:24 p.m. Pacific Time off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has led the National Weather Service to issue a widespread ...

Few to hit the coast have caused fatalities or damage. Two of the biggest were in March 2011, when a tsunami hit California’s shores 10 hours after the devastating 9.1 earthquake in Japan.

Another magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck in Japan in 2011, creating a tsunami with waves reaching 1,272 feet (39 meters).

California may have just dodged a devastating tsunami after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake shook Humboldt County early on Monday morning. At least two people died in the 11-mile-long earthquake, which ...

Although not nearly as destructive as the 1964 tsunami, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake in the Tohoku region of Japan led strong tsunami currents that damaged harbors along California's coast.

Capital Weather Gang California’s tsunami vulnerability may be greater than once believed An earthquake doesn’t have to happen nearby. A tsunami can come from thousands of miles away.