California Tsunami

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern California early Tuesday but there was no tsunami threat, seismologists said.

The machine Ted Bowman helped design can make water out of the air, and in parched California, some homeowners are already buying the pricey devices. The air-to-water systems work like air conditioners by using coils to chill air, then collect water drops in a basin.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 was reported off the coast of Northern California on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off the coast of northern California on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Costa Rica suffered remarkably little damage from Wednesday's magnitude-7.6 quake - a few blocked highways, some collapsed houses and one death, of a heart attack caused by fright. Officials credited the relatively deep location of the quake and building codes that Costa Rican officials call as strict as those in California and Japan.

Small amount of radioactive material, blowing from Japan's damaged nuclear power plants, is expected to reach California today but experts have said the radiation would be "within safe limits" and poses no major risk, according to a media report. . (Read: Sleepy Californian town a tsunami magnet)Radioactive isotopes are being blown toward North Ame...

There are images of waves throughout Crescent City: on the signs marking the city limits, on the logo of its credit union and on the facade of Tsunami Lanes, where this city's local rollers come to bowl. But the waves capturing most of the attention in this most northern of California cities are in the harbor, where the remnants of last week's surp...

Since the tidal gauge was installed in the boat basin in 1934, this small port on California's rugged northern coast has been hit by 34 tsunamis, large and small.The latest on Friday took one life about 20 miles to the south at the mouth of the Klamath River, where a young man was on the beach with friends taking pictures. The waves also roared int...

A tsunami emanating from the massive earthquake that hit Japan on Friday sent seven-foot waves into the Hawaiian islands, but appeared to have caused no major damage in Hawaii or along the West Coast. Peter Carlisle, the mayor of Honolulu, said Friday that the threat had subsided substantially and that coastal highways had reopened on the island of...

Tsunami waves swamped Hawaii beaches and severely damaged harbors in California after devastating Japan and sparking evacuations throughout the Pacific.Water rushed up on roadways and into hotel lobbies on the Big Island and low-lying areas in Maui were flooded as 7-foot waves crashed ashore. Large waves also hit the U.S. western coast, shaking loo...

Tsunami waves swamped Hawaii beaches and brushed the U.S. western coast Friday but didn't immediately cause major damage after devastating Japan and sparking evacuations throughout the Pacific.Kauai was the first of the Hawaiian islands hit by the tsunami, which was caused by an earthquake in Japan, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. Water ru...

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern California early Tuesday but there was no tsunami threat, seismologists said.

The machine Ted Bowman helped design can make water out of the air, and in parched California, some homeowners are already buying the pricey devices. The air-to-water systems work like air conditioners by using coils to chill air, then collect water drops in a basin.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 was reported off the coast of Northern California on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off the coast of northern California on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Costa Rica suffered remarkably little damage from Wednesday's magnitude-7.6 quake - a few blocked highways, some collapsed houses and one death, of a heart attack caused by fright. Officials credited the relatively deep location of the quake and building codes that Costa Rican officials call as strict as those in California and Japan.

Small amount of radioactive material, blowing from Japan's damaged nuclear power plants, is expected to reach California today but experts have said the radiation would be "within safe limits" and poses no major risk, according to a media report. . (Read: Sleepy Californian town a tsunami magnet)Radioactive isotopes are being blown toward North Ame...

There are images of waves throughout Crescent City: on the signs marking the city limits, on the logo of its credit union and on the facade of Tsunami Lanes, where this city's local rollers come to bowl. But the waves capturing most of the attention in this most northern of California cities are in the harbor, where the remnants of last week's surp...

Since the tidal gauge was installed in the boat basin in 1934, this small port on California's rugged northern coast has been hit by 34 tsunamis, large and small.The latest on Friday took one life about 20 miles to the south at the mouth of the Klamath River, where a young man was on the beach with friends taking pictures. The waves also roared int...

A tsunami emanating from the massive earthquake that hit Japan on Friday sent seven-foot waves into the Hawaiian islands, but appeared to have caused no major damage in Hawaii or along the West Coast. Peter Carlisle, the mayor of Honolulu, said Friday that the threat had subsided substantially and that coastal highways had reopened on the island of...

Tsunami waves swamped Hawaii beaches and severely damaged harbors in California after devastating Japan and sparking evacuations throughout the Pacific.Water rushed up on roadways and into hotel lobbies on the Big Island and low-lying areas in Maui were flooded as 7-foot waves crashed ashore. Large waves also hit the U.S. western coast, shaking loo...

Tsunami waves swamped Hawaii beaches and brushed the U.S. western coast Friday but didn't immediately cause major damage after devastating Japan and sparking evacuations throughout the Pacific.Kauai was the first of the Hawaiian islands hit by the tsunami, which was caused by an earthquake in Japan, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. Water ru...