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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) — Officials ...