The cost of repair or replacement has been estimated as high as $20 million, and cell phone alerts, while far from a perfect ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) estimated a tsunami could hit San Francisco at 12:10 p.m. A Tsunami warning was in effect on Thursday stretching from the California-Oregon border south down to ...

Tsunami Warning Canceled After 7.0 Earthquake Sends San Francisco Scrambling for High Ground. The earthquake hit about 60 miles off the coast of Northern California, but the waves never materialized ...

San Francisco earthquake resulted in Bay Area tsunami warning and evacuation As their phones blew up with disaster warnings, some Bay Area residents ran for the hills – while others faced death ...

Last week’s canceled tsunami warning following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake striking off the Northern California coast served as a reminder of San Francisco’s vulnerability to tsunamis and the ...

“The tsunami warning includes all of San Francisco Bay,” Lamont Bain, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office, told SFGATE when the news was first announced.

While December 2024 may feel like a lifetime ago at this stage, it was only a little over three months ago that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake off the coast of Humboldt County triggered a widespread ...

The threat of a tsunami lurks vaguely in the minds of Bay Area residents — enough that San Francisco’s Java Beach Cafe serves a “Hot Tsunami” sandwich, layered with ham, salami and mortadella.

Those findings were based on how, in 1964, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Alaska sent a tsunami toward California and did heavy damage along the coast near San Francisco.

The tsunami was estimated to begin at 12:10 p.m. in San Francisco. The tide is likely to go out before waves arrive. Evacuate from all coastal areas, even if the tide is going out.