Santa Cruz’s first Race the Wave run, on Saturday, Sept. 13, aims to help the community envision and plan what to do in the event of a tsunami.

In 1946, the ocean water was displaced by a M8.6 earthquake near the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. The tsunami run-up, or maximum rise of the incoming water on-shore, reached 55 ft (17 m) in Hilo and ...

Unless otherwise mentioned, figures are from the California Tsunami Program, which is run by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the California Geological Survey.

A Kodiak woman died in a hit-and-run collision during Saturday’s tsunami warning and evacuation, amid a dense late-night flow of vehicle and pedestrian traffic to higher ground.. Kodiak police ...

The March 26 tsunami drill will be at 11 a.m. and is for Humboldt, Del Norte and Mendocino counties. The drill urges residents to know their zone and to walk to higher ground if they live in a tsun… ...

Kodiak police have named Clint Moudy as the driver in a fatal hit-and-run collision during the tsunami evacuation late on July 15.. The crash killed a pedestrian, 45-year-old Kodiak resident ...

Run, run is the warning in Japan.A major earthquake was recorded in Japan with strong aftershocks already following. Visitors in Japan are urged to turn on NHK and set the audio to the English ...

There are now 60 DART buoys worldwide, and with more data, tsunami models can run in seconds, before a tsunami can hit, thereby saving many lives. Barry Hirshorn explains why an 8.5 quake is so ...