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 ...

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 ...

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.

Tsunamis pose a risk to the entirety of the California coast. But should a major one strike, how bad could it be?

“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.

On Thursday, the California Geological Survey released new tsunami hazard maps for San Francisco, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties, along with several in Southern California, for the first ...

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.