A tsunami advisory was lifted for Southern California Wednesday — but residents in Los Angeles and Orange counties were still urged to stay away from coastal waters. Even as L.A. County announced it ...

Update 10:38 p.m.: The Pacific Warning Tsunami Center has downgraded the tsunami warning for Hawaii to a tsunami advisory. Flooding has been limited to low-lying coastal areas. There are no reports of ...

A resident in Ferndale, California said they feared today's 7.0 earthquake was "The Big One." "You always have that split second where you are assessing, is this a little one, a moderate one, a big ...

Today's 7.0 magnitude quake off the shore of Eureka in Northern California generated a massive tsunami warning, which got us wondering what we should know about the risks to our low-lying coastal ...

A tsunami, a word that comes from the Japanese characters for harbor and wave, is a series of extremely long waves caused by the sudden displacement of the ocean, according to the National Weather ...

UPDATE (2:30 p.m.) - The final portion of the Tsunami Advisory that was affecting the Santa Barbara County South Coast has been canceled. No remaining advisories are in place for the central and ...

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The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along a long stretch of the West Coast — from Northern ...