In Crescent City, residents reported that about three ... Among the earliest records of a tsunami in California is an event in 1812 when a large earthquake in the Santa Barbara area “was ...
More recently, a tsunami from a 2011 earthquake in Japan caused about $100 million in damages along the California coast, much of it in Crescent City.
The risk extends north, too. Humboldt and Del Norte counties have significant tsunami risk. Crescent City, near the Oregon border, is the site of California's worst tsunami disaster in modern times, ...