When 4-foot tsunami waves crashed into the Crescent City Harbor in rural Northern California last week, the dock nearest the harbor's entrance — which was designed to absorb the brunt of the surge ...

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The estimated death toll from Sunday's natural disasters surpassed 52,000 on Tuesday as workers labored to search for survivors - and bury the dead. Such astronomical death tolls and tales of human ...

After modest tsunami waves arrived in California following a powerful earthquake in Russia, damaging a dock in Crescent City, advisories were downgraded and canceled for the majority of the state. "We ...

Editor’s note: this story has been updated with a statement from Mike McGuire. Last week, Crescent City saw the highest recorded waves from a tsunami that hit the U.S. West Coast, triggered by a ...

The tsunami generated by the July 29 M 8.8 earthquake near Kamchatka demonstrates why Crescent City has earned the title “tsunami magnet.” By 7 P.M. PDT on July 30, the tsunami warning centers in ...

Three years after a tsunami swept through it, Crescent City’s Harbor is completely rebuilt. (Ernest Perry) Richard Young admits that this week’s magnitude 6.9 earthquake off the Northern California ...

CRESCENT CITY, Calif.- It doesn't matter if the earth sways in Chile, Alaska or Japan, the formation of the sea floor along the U.S. West Coast generally aims any tsunami surges at the tiny California ...