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"content": "\u003cp>On Wednesday, I was supposed to be out on assignment on a kayak off the San Francisco shore, recording a radio interview on the waters of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039317/watch-sf-giants-kayak-rental-mccovey-cove-this-season\">McCovey Cove\u003c/a> as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039317/watch-sf-giants-kayak-rental-mccovey-cove-this-season\">San Francisco Giants played a day game. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday afternoon, regions across the Pacific Ocean, including all of the Northern California coast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050219/tsunami-waves-expected-to-last-into-afternoon-across-bay-area-with-no-damage-so-far\">were given notice about potential tsunami waves\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, being out on a kayak that day — in a location marked as “hazardous” on \u003ca href=\"https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/informationwarehouse/ts_evacuation/\">the state’s tsunami danger map \u003c/a>— didn’t seem like such a good idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While “tsunami” can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10628782/what-would-really-happen-if-a-tsunami-hit-san-francisco\">conjure images of towering waves\u003c/a>, these swells caused by quakes are frequently much smaller. On Tuesday night, the National Weather Service predicted the waves that would hit San Francisco early Wednesday morning would be less than a foot high, and it \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2025/07/29/t06p1k/22/WEAK51/WEAK51.txt\">has now measured them at 1.2 feet, \u003c/a> with no damage reported near the Bay Area so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how unsafe would my kayak trip \u003cem>really \u003c/em>have been?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SFTsunamiWarningGetty.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SFTsunamiWarningGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SFTsunamiWarningGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SFTsunamiWarningGetty-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SFTsunamiWarningGetty-1536x1105.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A beachgoer walks on the beach during a tsunami advisory at Ocean Beach on July 30, 2025, in San Francisco, California. Authorities are warning people to stay away from beaches following a massive 8.8 earthquake on the East Coast of Russia, which triggered a tsunami warning for Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States. No major damage has been reported. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Experts say that even puny waves can have a big impact. Lori Dengler, a tsunami expert from Cal Poly Humboldt, said even if 1 foot sounds manageable, the dangers are hiding in the deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not how high the water is, it’s how strong that water is flowing in and out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#smaller-tsunami-waves\">What should you do — and not do — when smaller tsunami waves hit?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How dangerous can these ‘small’ tsunami waves be?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, even “small” waves can pose big hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dalton Behringer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office, said that a 1-foot swell may sound small, but when you add that foot to normal tide behavior, the swings from high to low can give a tsunami that extra push and boost \u003cem>overall \u003c/em>wave heights much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Tsunami-tides.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Tsunami-tides.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Tsunami-tides-160x125.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Tsunami-tides-1536x1199.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This data from San Francisco’s Pier 17 shows that water levels start with normal, wave-like tidal patterns, then suddenly shift to sharp, irregular, high-frequency oscillations when the tsunami arrives. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Exploratorium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Think of it as not so much a single wave, Behringer said, but “as going from a normal low tide to a normal high tide,” — and this happening \u003cem>fast\u003c/em>. Such a shift would usually happen over six hours, he said, but in a tsunami, such a rise “happens over 10 to 15 minutes,” Behringer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/day-2011-japan-earthquake-and-tsunami\">the huge 2011 earthquake in Japan\u003c/a> that sent 9.0-magnitude shocks across the Pacific Ocean, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1mcvwmf/video_1_foot_tsunami_in_santa_cruz_after_2011/\">a 1-foot tsunami caused significant damage to boats docked all the way in Santa Cruz.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Pruett, general manager of Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay, said the first, second or even third waves from a tsunami should not be taken lightly. That’s because tsunamis are more like powerful swells than waves and don’t “crash,” meaning each wave can do substantial damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Afa4pjWg4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be only a 12-inch wave, but there is a \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>of water behind that wave,” Pruett said. “It’s traveled across the Pacific Ocean, and when the swell hits, it doesn’t stop. All that water continues to come in, so it surprises people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a place like Pillar Point, which is well protected due to being a natural harbor, small swells like these usually only mean the harbor fills and empties like a bathtub, Pruett said. Still, he advised always to heed warnings from local authorities if they advise staying out of the water, away from beaches or to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another thing to remember: sometimes the later tsunami swells are even worse than the initial ones, Behringer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tX5S9uSLmM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The highest [swell] that we’ve seen so far has come a few hours after the initial wave,” Behringer said. “With tsunami waves, we can see the wave energy actually build for several hours after the initial waves and then dissipate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamalah MacNeily, owner at \u003ca href=\"https://bluewaterskayaking.com/\">Blue Waters Kayaking\u003c/a> in Tomales Bay, said she canceled a kayak tour on Wednesday as a precaution, just like I did. It isn’t the first time MacNeily’s done so after a tsunami warning, either, even when the weather looks nice and the bay seems fairly unaffected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be cautious,” she said. If a tsunami came in from just the right direction, Tomales Bay “would be crushed,” MacNeily said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be cautious with people’s lives, and we also obey the advisories,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should you do\u003ca id=\"smaller-tsunami-waves\">\u003c/a> — and not do — when smaller tsunami waves hit?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Please don’t go and try to look at them,” Dengler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she and others \u003ca href=\"https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tsunami/\">advised going online to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s website\u003c/a> to watch the swells, since they are few and far between — and may not even look like much to the naked eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of tsunami is actually arriving relatively slowly,” she said. “There is really nothing dramatic to see.”[aside postID=news_12032295 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/OceanBeachTedG.jpeg']A one-foot swell might not sound that bad in a kayak or near shore. But even if you assume you’d be able to handle it, the real dangers are lurking below and around you in the currents — and the dangerous objects, like boats, that might get tossed in your direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the swell hits the shoreline, all that water has to retreat back to the ocean,” Pruett said. “So the normal currents will be extremely strong, ripping people or structures back out to sea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swimmers and people in small crafts should get themselves and their boats out of the water. Conversely, “the safest place for a larger vessel is out at sea,” Pruett said, pointing to \u003ca href=\"https://news.sky.com/video/boats-evacuate-honolulu-harbour-as-russian-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-warning-13404126\">Tuesday night’s mass evacuation of boats off Honolulu’s shores\u003c/a> into the ocean, where they can more adeptly handle large swells and won’t be tossed into the shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruett said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDpXP0rbajA\">during a volcano-triggered tsunami in 2022\u003c/a>, the swells hit at high tide, when the water levels were already high — damaging the Santa Cruz Harbor, which is artificially constructed — and therefore less resilient to tsunami-like swells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though it was less than a foot, it still raised the harbor about 3 to 5 feet. Because when it hit the shore, it built up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I prepare for a future tsunami?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The good news: Pruett said the San Francisco Bay is especially resilient to tsunami-like waves and that “the mouth of the Golden Gate will significantly knock down any large swells.” Nonetheless, in a future tsunami, “large amounts of water will still come into the Bay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you needed another reason to take tsunamis seriously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_AIWgknfI\">this simulation\u003c/a> shows the effect that just one tsunami wave could have on the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, there’s a lot you can do to prepare for if and when the next tsunami advisory happens. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032295/how-to-prepare-for-a-tsunami-emergency-warning-california\">First of all, make sure you sign up for alerts;\u003c/a> know the difference between a tsunami warning, watch and advisory; and have an evacuation plan just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032295/how-to-prepare-for-a-tsunami-emergency-warning-california\">Read our full guide on how to prepare for a possible tsunami.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>And which coastal areas \u003cem>were \u003c/em>more affected by Wednesday’s tsunami?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://krcrtv.com/news/local/tsunami-waves-reach-north-coast-after-major-88m-quake-in-russia\">California, Crescent City in Del Norte County\u003c/a> was the most vulnerable, seeing waves of up to 4 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents were prepared and even pulled their boats out of the water on Tuesday night in anticipation of any large swells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050315\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-2000x1231.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-2048x1261.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crescent City Harbor, on March 12, 2011, sustained the most damage of any harbor along the California coast after the Japan earthquake triggered a tsunami. \u003ccite>(Photo By Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1964, Crescent City was the site of \u003ca href=\"https://www.crescentcity.org/tsunamitour/\">the worst tsunami recorded in the United States\u003c/a>, which killed 11 people, injured 24 and wiped out 29 city blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly’s Dengler said so far on Wednesday, she’s seen up to five feet in Hilo, Hawaii, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/huge-quake-rocks-russias-far-east-triggering-tsunami-warnings-around-pacific-2025-07-30/\">15 feet on the coast of Russia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just the surge coming across the Pacific and that first wave stopping,” she said. “A tsunami always generates a long train of waves, but then when it hits the coast, it reacts to the shape of the shoreline, the shape of the continental shelf and the shape of bays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of those different shapes set up oscillations and vibrations,” she said. “You end up, especially at Crescent City, with amplification of waves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tgoldberg\">Ted Goldberg\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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On Tuesday night, the National Weather Service predicted the waves that would hit San Francisco early Wednesday morning would be less than a foot high, and it \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2025/07/29/t06p1k/22/WEAK51/WEAK51.txt\">has now measured them at 1.2 feet, \u003c/a> with no damage reported near the Bay Area so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how unsafe would my kayak trip \u003cem>really \u003c/em>have been?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SFTsunamiWarningGetty.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SFTsunamiWarningGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SFTsunamiWarningGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SFTsunamiWarningGetty-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SFTsunamiWarningGetty-1536x1105.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A beachgoer walks on the beach during a tsunami advisory at Ocean Beach on July 30, 2025, in San Francisco, California. Authorities are warning people to stay away from beaches following a massive 8.8 earthquake on the East Coast of Russia, which triggered a tsunami warning for Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States. No major damage has been reported. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Experts say that even puny waves can have a big impact. Lori Dengler, a tsunami expert from Cal Poly Humboldt, said even if 1 foot sounds manageable, the dangers are hiding in the deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not how high the water is, it’s how strong that water is flowing in and out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#smaller-tsunami-waves\">What should you do — and not do — when smaller tsunami waves hit?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How dangerous can these ‘small’ tsunami waves be?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, even “small” waves can pose big hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dalton Behringer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office, said that a 1-foot swell may sound small, but when you add that foot to normal tide behavior, the swings from high to low can give a tsunami that extra push and boost \u003cem>overall \u003c/em>wave heights much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Tsunami-tides.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Tsunami-tides.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Tsunami-tides-160x125.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Tsunami-tides-1536x1199.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This data from San Francisco’s Pier 17 shows that water levels start with normal, wave-like tidal patterns, then suddenly shift to sharp, irregular, high-frequency oscillations when the tsunami arrives. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Exploratorium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Think of it as not so much a single wave, Behringer said, but “as going from a normal low tide to a normal high tide,” — and this happening \u003cem>fast\u003c/em>. Such a shift would usually happen over six hours, he said, but in a tsunami, such a rise “happens over 10 to 15 minutes,” Behringer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/day-2011-japan-earthquake-and-tsunami\">the huge 2011 earthquake in Japan\u003c/a> that sent 9.0-magnitude shocks across the Pacific Ocean, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1mcvwmf/video_1_foot_tsunami_in_santa_cruz_after_2011/\">a 1-foot tsunami caused significant damage to boats docked all the way in Santa Cruz.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Pruett, general manager of Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay, said the first, second or even third waves from a tsunami should not be taken lightly. That’s because tsunamis are more like powerful swells than waves and don’t “crash,” meaning each wave can do substantial damage.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/C0Afa4pjWg4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/C0Afa4pjWg4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“It may be only a 12-inch wave, but there is a \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>of water behind that wave,” Pruett said. “It’s traveled across the Pacific Ocean, and when the swell hits, it doesn’t stop. All that water continues to come in, so it surprises people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a place like Pillar Point, which is well protected due to being a natural harbor, small swells like these usually only mean the harbor fills and empties like a bathtub, Pruett said. Still, he advised always to heed warnings from local authorities if they advise staying out of the water, away from beaches or to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another thing to remember: sometimes the later tsunami swells are even worse than the initial ones, Behringer said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/2tX5S9uSLmM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/2tX5S9uSLmM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“The highest [swell] that we’ve seen so far has come a few hours after the initial wave,” Behringer said. “With tsunami waves, we can see the wave energy actually build for several hours after the initial waves and then dissipate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamalah MacNeily, owner at \u003ca href=\"https://bluewaterskayaking.com/\">Blue Waters Kayaking\u003c/a> in Tomales Bay, said she canceled a kayak tour on Wednesday as a precaution, just like I did. 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If a tsunami came in from just the right direction, Tomales Bay “would be crushed,” MacNeily said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be cautious with people’s lives, and we also obey the advisories,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should you do\u003ca id=\"smaller-tsunami-waves\">\u003c/a> — and not do — when smaller tsunami waves hit?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Please don’t go and try to look at them,” Dengler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she and others \u003ca href=\"https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tsunami/\">advised going online to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s website\u003c/a> to watch the swells, since they are few and far between — and may not even look like much to the naked eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of tsunami is actually arriving relatively slowly,” she said. “There is really nothing dramatic to see.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A one-foot swell might not sound that bad in a kayak or near shore. But even if you assume you’d be able to handle it, the real dangers are lurking below and around you in the currents — and the dangerous objects, like boats, that might get tossed in your direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the swell hits the shoreline, all that water has to retreat back to the ocean,” Pruett said. “So the normal currents will be extremely strong, ripping people or structures back out to sea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swimmers and people in small crafts should get themselves and their boats out of the water. Conversely, “the safest place for a larger vessel is out at sea,” Pruett said, pointing to \u003ca href=\"https://news.sky.com/video/boats-evacuate-honolulu-harbour-as-russian-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-warning-13404126\">Tuesday night’s mass evacuation of boats off Honolulu’s shores\u003c/a> into the ocean, where they can more adeptly handle large swells and won’t be tossed into the shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruett said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDpXP0rbajA\">during a volcano-triggered tsunami in 2022\u003c/a>, the swells hit at high tide, when the water levels were already high — damaging the Santa Cruz Harbor, which is artificially constructed — and therefore less resilient to tsunami-like swells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though it was less than a foot, it still raised the harbor about 3 to 5 feet. Because when it hit the shore, it built up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I prepare for a future tsunami?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The good news: Pruett said the San Francisco Bay is especially resilient to tsunami-like waves and that “the mouth of the Golden Gate will significantly knock down any large swells.” Nonetheless, in a future tsunami, “large amounts of water will still come into the Bay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you needed another reason to take tsunamis seriously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_AIWgknfI\">this simulation\u003c/a> shows the effect that just one tsunami wave could have on the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, there’s a lot you can do to prepare for if and when the next tsunami advisory happens. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032295/how-to-prepare-for-a-tsunami-emergency-warning-california\">First of all, make sure you sign up for alerts;\u003c/a> know the difference between a tsunami warning, watch and advisory; and have an evacuation plan just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032295/how-to-prepare-for-a-tsunami-emergency-warning-california\">Read our full guide on how to prepare for a possible tsunami.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>And which coastal areas \u003cem>were \u003c/em>more affected by Wednesday’s tsunami?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://krcrtv.com/news/local/tsunami-waves-reach-north-coast-after-major-88m-quake-in-russia\">California, Crescent City in Del Norte County\u003c/a> was the most vulnerable, seeing waves of up to 4 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents were prepared and even pulled their boats out of the water on Tuesday night in anticipation of any large swells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050315\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-2000x1231.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1321990137-2048x1261.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crescent City Harbor, on March 12, 2011, sustained the most damage of any harbor along the California coast after the Japan earthquake triggered a tsunami. \u003ccite>(Photo By Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1964, Crescent City was the site of \u003ca href=\"https://www.crescentcity.org/tsunamitour/\">the worst tsunami recorded in the United States\u003c/a>, which killed 11 people, injured 24 and wiped out 29 city blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly’s Dengler said so far on Wednesday, she’s seen up to five feet in Hilo, Hawaii, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/huge-quake-rocks-russias-far-east-triggering-tsunami-warnings-around-pacific-2025-07-30/\">15 feet on the coast of Russia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just the surge coming across the Pacific and that first wave stopping,” she said. “A tsunami always generates a long train of waves, but then when it hits the coast, it reacts to the shape of the shoreline, the shape of the continental shelf and the shape of bays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of those different shapes set up oscillations and vibrations,” she said. “You end up, especially at Crescent City, with amplification of waves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tgoldberg\">Ted Goldberg\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Much of the coast remains under a tsunami advisory and there’s a portion of northern California under a tsunami warning.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/la-population-of-unhoused-older-adults-is-growing-while-services-are-being-cut\">\u003cstrong>LA’s Population Of Unhoused Older Adults Is Growing While Services Are Being Cut\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The number of unhoused people living in and around Los Angeles is trending downward, local experts say, but that’s not the case for at least one group: older adults. In the city of L.A., the number of people aged 65 and older experiencing homelessness jumped more than 17% since last year, and more than 36% in two years, according to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/homelessness-la-region-annual-count-2025\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>annual point-in-time counts\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the unhoused, older adults are estimated to be the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/02/california-homeless-seniors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>fastest-growing\u003c/u>\u003c/a> population in California, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, organizations that serve older adults are pulling back on services because of budget shortfalls while bracing for the effects of the Trump administration’s cuts to Medicaid. That means people are being turned away from free food programs, senior centers and other supportive resources. And even before that, people who had housing were already struggling to keep it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were having to choose between their medications, or keeping their lights on, or having food on the table, or paying their rent,” said Yvonne Sun of Special Service for Groups SILVER, an L.A.-based nonprofit that provides resources to older adults in need by meeting them where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many local organizations for older adults pay for the services they provide through grants and fundraising. But they also receive federal funding, particularly through the Older Americans Act, which was designed to boost community social services for older people. Now, the services some older Angelenos rely on are at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050219/tsunami-waves-expected-to-last-into-afternoon-across-bay-area-with-no-damage-so-far\">Tsunami Waves Hit California Coast\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032295/how-to-prepare-for-a-tsunami-emergency-warning-california\">Tsunami waves\u003c/a> have been hitting the California coastline for much of Wednesday morning. The northern part of the state was hit especially hard. Waves grew to nearly four feet above normal \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/disasters-and-accidents/2025-07-30/overnight-tsunami-causes-minimal-damage-advisory-is-lifted-in-most-locations\">in Crescent City\u003c/a> in Del Norte County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crescent City Harbormaster Mike Rademaker said after a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/us/17crescent.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>2011 tsunami\u003c/u>\u003c/a> caused millions in damage to the docks, the city rebuilt the docks to be tsunami-resistant. “Notably, H dock was engineered as a wave and current attenuator with closely spaced pilings, which are specifically designed to disrupt and dissipate tsunami energy before it reaches the Inner Harbor,” he said. “So its sacrificial role in the overall design appears to have functioned as intended, absorbing the brunt of the surge, helping to protect the more interior docks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rademaker said that the H dock was submerged and broke apart, causing electric sparking. But they haven’t noticed any loose or damaged boats. The estimated cost of repairs to the dock are $100,000. Vessels have been prohibited from leaving or entering the harbor as of Wednesday morning because of the dangerous conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong waves could be seen across the state, from the northern part of California to the Bay Area and central and southern California. As of late Wednesday morning, no significant damage has been reported in other regions of the state.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many local organizations for older adults pay for the services they provide through grants and fundraising. But they also receive federal funding, particularly through the Older Americans Act, which was designed to boost community social services for older people. Now, the services some older Angelenos rely on are at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050219/tsunami-waves-expected-to-last-into-afternoon-across-bay-area-with-no-damage-so-far\">Tsunami Waves Hit California Coast\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032295/how-to-prepare-for-a-tsunami-emergency-warning-california\">Tsunami waves\u003c/a> have been hitting the California coastline for much of Wednesday morning. The northern part of the state was hit especially hard. Waves grew to nearly four feet above normal \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/disasters-and-accidents/2025-07-30/overnight-tsunami-causes-minimal-damage-advisory-is-lifted-in-most-locations\">in Crescent City\u003c/a> in Del Norte County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crescent City Harbormaster Mike Rademaker said after a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/us/17crescent.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>2011 tsunami\u003c/u>\u003c/a> caused millions in damage to the docks, the city rebuilt the docks to be tsunami-resistant. “Notably, H dock was engineered as a wave and current attenuator with closely spaced pilings, which are specifically designed to disrupt and dissipate tsunami energy before it reaches the Inner Harbor,” he said. “So its sacrificial role in the overall design appears to have functioned as intended, absorbing the brunt of the surge, helping to protect the more interior docks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rademaker said that the H dock was submerged and broke apart, causing electric sparking. But they haven’t noticed any loose or damaged boats. The estimated cost of repairs to the dock are $100,000. Vessels have been prohibited from leaving or entering the harbor as of Wednesday morning because of the dangerous conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong waves could be seen across the state, from the northern part of California to the Bay Area and central and southern California. As of late Wednesday morning, no significant damage has been reported in other regions of the state.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cem>Update 8:50 p.m. on July 30:\u003c/em> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A magnitude 8.8 earthquake that occurred at 4:24 p.m. Pacific Time off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has led the National Weather Service to issue \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/\">a widespread “tsunami advisory” for the California coast. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2025/07/29/t06p1k/5/WEAK51/WEAK51.txt\">A more severe “tsunami warning”\u003c/a> has now been issued for the northernmost coast in Humboldt and Del Norte counties, stretching from Cape Mendocino (about 25 miles south of Eureka) up to the Oregon border.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1950392597651898678\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The National Weather Service forecasts that \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2025/07/29/t06p1k/5/WEAK51/WEAK51.txt\">a potential tsunami would arrive on the San Francisco coast at 12:40 a.m.\u003c/a> early Wednesday morning. The current estimate is waves of less than 1 foot.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>By contrast, the NWS prediction for Crescent City, close to the Oregon border, is between 2.9 and 4.8 feet with a potential duration of wave activity of 30 hours.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can find the latest updates at\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/\"> tsunami.gov\u003c/a>, and jump straight to our information on \u003ca href=\"#C\">how to prepare for a possible tsunami.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Our original story from March 2025 on tsunami preparedness:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While December 2024 may feel like a lifetime ago at this stage, it was only a little over three months ago that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016827/pair-of-large-earthquakes-rattle-northern-california-and-trigger-tsunami-warning\">a magnitude 7.0 earthquake\u003c/a> off the coast of Humboldt County triggered a widespread tsunami warning for \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/tsunami-warning-issued-on-west-coast-after-earthquake-strikes-off-california\">at least 5.3 million \u003c/a>Northern California residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reactions to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016827/pair-of-large-earthquakes-rattle-northern-california-and-trigger-tsunami-warning\">Dec. 5 message\u003c/a> — which warned “You are in danger” and urged people to “Get away from coastal waters” — varied. Some people\u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/article/california-tsunami-alert\"> panicked\u003c/a> as residents in areas like West Berkeley fled their homes following evacuation orders and Oakland schools sheltered in place. Other people \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/zaygranet/status/1864745653836091828\">posted through it\u003c/a> on social media — as many are inclined to do in \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/even-better/23892562/messy-art-posting-through-it-instagram-tiktok\">anxiety-provoking \u003c/a>situations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/noampomsky/status/1864759957192847791\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few hours, the alert was withdrawn — causing many Californians to dismiss the warning’s validity altogether. And while there is an\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016934/qa-imperfect-science-behind-tsunami-warnings\"> “imperfect science”\u003c/a> behind tsunami warnings, experts said they wanted to make sure people didn’t see that day as a “false alarm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">When was the last major tsunami in California?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#B\">How far inland could a tsunami reach in the Bay Area?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#C\">How can I prepare for a tsunami?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“The alert issued today was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016827/pair-of-large-earthquakes-rattle-northern-california-and-trigger-tsunami-warning\">highest level of tsunami warning \u003c/a>that we have,” Justin Schorr, a rescue captain with the San Francisco Fire Department, told KQED that day. “If we weren’t prepared today to evacuate inland or to higher ground, this gives us a great opportunity to be prepared for next time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Seriously, think about what could happen’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Preparing for that “next time” is the mission of \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunamizone.org/california/\">Tsunami Preparedness Week\u003c/a>, an initiative from several government agencies, including the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-18/these-california-coastal-cities-face-heightened-flood-danger-from-tsunami-data-show\">experts\u003c/a> said that the need to be aware of tsunami hazard zones is even more pressing in the light of research showing the risk of damaging\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-18/these-california-coastal-cities-face-heightened-flood-danger-from-tsunami-data-show\"> tsunami flooding\u003c/a> to coastal cities may be even greater than realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be to our advantage that [the December alert is] fresh in people’s minds,” said Lori Nezhura, deputy director of planning, preparedness, prevention at the Cal OES. “I hope that recent experience will drive people to seriously think about what could happen and how they should prepare for a tsunami in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nezhura called the act of preparing for an emergency as developing “muscle memory” — and “you’ve got to stretch and exercise it every now and then otherwise, you forget you’ve got that muscle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you were one of the many people who took little or no action — or just didn’t know what to do — on Dec. 5 after that tsunami alert, what \u003cem>should \u003c/em>you do if that “next time” comes, and your phone receives another warning one day? Keep reading for what experts advise.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Do tsunamis even happen in California?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130211\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Crescent2011_0524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The aftermath of a tsunami in Crescent City harbor, Del Norte County, March 12, 2011. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tsunamis — giant waves that can be triggered by an earthquake, undersea volcanic eruption, \u003ca href=\"https://abag.ca.gov/our-work/resilience/data-research/tsunami-additional-hazards#:~:text=Tsunamis%20affecting%20the%20Bay%20Area,triggered%20by%20the%201906%20earthquake).\">seismic activity\u003c/a> or landslide — are relatively \u003ca href=\"https://myhazards.caloes.ca.gov/\">rare along California\u003c/a>’s shores, but they do happen. According to the state, since 1800, more than 150 tsunamis have hit parts of California. But even though many of those have been\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/index/Pages/News/New-Tsunami-Hazard-Maps-Alameda-Monterey-San-Mateo.aspx\"> “barely noticeable,”\u003c/a> the officials at Cal OES stress that “the entire California coastline \u003ca href=\"https://myhazards.caloes.ca.gov/\">is vulnerable \u003c/a>to these events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s most destructive tsunami hit in 1964 in Crescent City near the Oregon border. Several hours after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake rocked Alaska, waves reaching up to 21 feet crashed against the Del Norte County shoreline, causing the deaths of 12 people and destroying many homes and buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the tsunami that devastated large parts of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/tohoku\"> Tōhoku region of Japan\u003c/a> also caused\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/index/Pages/News/New-Tsunami-Hazard-Maps-Alameda-Monterey-San-Mateo.aspx\"> $100 million\u003c/a> of damage to harbors across California. And more recently, in 2022, the collapse of a volcano near New Zealand and Fiji led to a tsunami that caused up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/Documents/Tsunami/california-tsunami-history-poster-a11y.pdf\">$10 million (PDF)\u003c/a> in damage along California’s coasts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-22/the-tsunami-that-battered-santa-cruz-highlights-the-threat-facing-californias-coast\">with Santa Cruz\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/tonga\"> Ventura\u003c/a> particularly affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_AIWgknfI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Related: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016913/what-would-a-tsunami-in-the-bay-area-actually-look-like\">What would a tsunami in the Bay Area actually look like?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Who sends tsunami alerts, and how serious are they? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Monterey-based National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Garcia told KQED that local offices are “wholly and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016934/qa-imperfect-science-behind-tsunami-warnings\">completely dependent”\u003c/a> on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/\">National Tsunami Warning Center\u003c/a>, which is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — a federal agency that faced\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029178/trumps-mass-layoffs-noaa-cut-into-bay-area-weather-service\"> major cuts \u003c/a>by President Donald Trump.[aside postID=news_12016934 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1020x679.jpg']When the Center issues a tsunami warning, “it triggers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994754/emergency-alert-phone-earthquake-test-2024-myshake\">the Wireless Emergency Alert\u003c/a> that hits your phones immediately from their office,” Garcia said. “So it doesn’t even come to our local [NWS] office before it hits the Wireless Emergency Alerts across phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different types of alerts pop up on your phone during natural disasters — like an earthquake, or a tsunami — and they require different responses from you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A tsunami warning\u003c/strong> is issued when “a tsunami with the potential to generate \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/?page=tsunamiFAQ\">widespread inundation [flooding] \u003c/a>is imminent, expected, or occurring” and is the highest level of alert. Emergency management officials will start to take action immediately. Warnings can be updated or downgraded, but usually will urge people to\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunamizone.org/wp-content/themes/tsunami/downloads/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages.png\"> move to high ground \u003c/a>or inland. (More on this below)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A tsunami advisory\u003c/strong> is given when a tsunami has the potential to generate strong currents or dangerous waves to those nearby. An advisory may lead to closed beaches and evacuated harbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A tsunami watch\u003c/strong> is issued when a tsunami may impact the area, and people “should prepare \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/?page=tsunamiFAQ\">to take action\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A tsunami information statement\u003c/strong> is given when there is no threat of a destructive tsunami, but an earthquake or a tsunami has occurred that may be of interest to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12032508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-800x1162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1162\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-800x1162.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-1020x1481.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-160x232.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-1058x1536.png 1058w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-1410x2048.png 1410w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-1920x2788.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Where in the Bay Area is most at risk during a tsunami?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents can look up their neighborhood’s risk of being flooded by a tsunami online using:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Cal OES\u003ca href=\"https://myhazards.caloes.ca.gov/\"> MyHazards maps\u003c/a> (which you can also use to look up your flood, earthquake and fire risks).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California’s Department of Conservation \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps\">Tsunami Maps\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1260px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image-3-21-25-at-1.40%E2%80%AFPM-scaled-e1742589760932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image-3-21-25-at-1.40 PM-scaled-e1742589760932.jpg 1260w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image-3-21-25-at-1.40 PM-scaled-e1742589760932-800x575.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image-3-21-25-at-1.40 PM-scaled-e1742589760932-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image-3-21-25-at-1.40 PM-scaled-e1742589760932-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1260px) 100vw, 1260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps\">California tsunami hazard areas\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(California Geological Survey/Department of Conservation )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These maps highlight “hazard areas,” meaning areas you should\u003ca href=\"https://cadoc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=61bc8d30b53e4fb5927ae199d31f5aef&_gl=1*ur4cka*_ga*MTAxOTQ3NTE0Mi4xNzE4NzI0MDg3*_ga_N4MB98DBXY*MTcyNDI1MjIzMS4xOC4xLjE3MjQyNTMzMDAuMC4wLjA.\"> leave immediately\u003c/a> if a tsunami warning was issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say anywhere you have people in close proximity or a large urban population in a tsunami zone, it’s extremely vulnerable,” said Nezhura from the Cal OES.[aside postID=forum_2010101908068 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2024/12/iStock-145236147-tsunami-sign-1020x574.jpg']She emphasized that residents should use the maps to zoom into specific areas and zero in on neighborhoods with highest risk. For example, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-12-23/where-is-most-at-risk-for-tsunami-flooding-in-norcal-check-these-maps\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, places deemed at high risk from a tsunami include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Ferry Building\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Palace of Fine Arts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fisherman’s Wharf\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Parts of the Marina\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Parts of SOMA\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Parts of the Richmond\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Parts of Outer Sunset\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Another example would be the East Bay, where the city of Alameda is labeled as high risk, as well as parts of Oakland. In past tsunamis, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-22/the-tsunami-that-battered-santa-cruz-highlights-the-threat-facing-californias-coast\">places like Santa Cruz\u003c/a> have also been hit especially hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your county may also have its own map to assess the tsunami risk where you live or work, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/alameda\">Alameda County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/contra-costa\">Contra Costa County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/marin\">Marin County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/napa\">Napa County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/san-francisco\">San Francisco County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/san-mateo\">San Mateo County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/santa-clara\">Santa Clara County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/santa-cruz\">Santa Cruz County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/solano\">Solano County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/sonoma\">Sonoma County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If I get another tsunami warning, what should I do? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you are in an earthquake, take cover\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a tsunami in California could be triggered by an earthquake \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/earthquakes/tsunami-california-coast-earthquakes/3575644/#:~:text=Although%20not%20nearly%20as%20destructive,Crescent%20City%20and%20Santa%20Cruz.\">as far away as Japan\u003c/a>, tsunamis can also be caused by more local quakes — meaning you could technically face an earthquake followed by a tsunami in quick succession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, the Bay Area is more likely to see a tsunami triggered by further earthquakes rather than local ones. And despite every Bay Area resident’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1936949/do-little-quakes-mean-the-big-one-is-close-at-hand\"> anxiety about the “Big One” \u003c/a>hitting our region, experts told KQED in 2017 that an earthquake specifically along the San Andreas fault is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10628782/what-would-really-happen-if-a-tsunami-hit-san-francisco\">unlikely to produce \u003c/a>a major tsunami due to the type of movement exhibited by these tectonic plates. However, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Preparedness/Documents/CalOES_FactSheet_Cascadia_v2023_06_22-final.pdf\">Cascadia Subduction Zone (PDF)\u003c/a> — a fault that stretches from Northern California to Vancouver Island, Canada — could pose a future\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one\"> earthquake and tsunami risk \u003c/a>to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you\u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/tsunamisafe/English/Pages/default.aspx\"> feel an earthquake\u003c/a>, drop, take cover under a structure like a desk, hold onto it and cover your\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/Documents/Tsunami/How-to-Survive-a-Tsunami.pdf\"> head and neck (PDF)\u003c/a>. Do not stand in a doorway, since it cannot protect you from \u003ca href=\"https://ok.ng.mil/Portals/56/Safety/The%20Great%20ShakeOut%20-%20OCT%2021st.pdf\">falling debris (PDF)\u003c/a> — and do not run outside, since you could get hit by\u003ca href=\"https://ok.ng.mil/Portals/56/Safety/The%20Great%20ShakeOut%20-%20OCT%2021st.pdf\"> masonry and glass (PDF)\u003c/a>. KQED has a thorough guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\">how to prepare \u003c/a>for the next big quake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even during small earthquakes, if you are near a beach, experts recommend that you run to high ground — like a nearby hill — immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032527\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tsunami warning sign from Crescent City, Del Norte County, on March 11, 2011. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/Climate Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know your evacuation routes — and how long you have to flee the coast\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large tsunami can flood a coast \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/?page=tsunamiFAQ\">for a mile inland\u003c/a> — and even small ones can cause damage by sweeping up debris that can hit people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tsunami that’s been triggered by an earthquake far away could take several hours to hit the Bay. But a tsunami that’s triggered by a local earthquake will begin much faster and could only give \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/index/Pages/News/CGS-Issues-New-Tsunami-Maps-for-Humboldt-County.aspx\">you a few minutes\u003c/a> to get away from the coast before the wave hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best practice during a tsunami warning is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Get at least\u003ca href=\"https://www.ready.gov/tsunamis\"> one mile inland.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Find high ground, like a hill that is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ready.gov/tsunamis\">100 feet or more \u003c/a>above sea level.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Or go to\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/?page=tsunamiFAQ\"> the upper floors \u003c/a>of a sturdy building if you’re unable to find or reach high ground.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As a last resort, climb a tree.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>To plan an evacuation route, use the\u003ca href=\"https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/informationwarehouse/ts_evacuation/#data_s=id%3AdataSource_3-1918f9f263a-layer-15%3A38\"> Tsunami Hazard Map\u003c/a> to determine if you live or work in a hazard “yellow zone” and how far you need to travel to reach a safer “green zone.” Bear in mind that you may need to evacuate on foot if the tsunami has been caused by an earthquake that’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/tsunamisafe/English/Pages/default.aspx\"> damaged nearby roads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are outside of the hazard zone when a tsunami hits, the good news is that you should be safe — and in fact, officials urge you \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/tsunamisafe/English/Pages/default.aspx\">not to contribute to traffic\u003c/a> by trying to evacuate, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once you’re away from the coast, stay away from the coast\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t return to coastal areas, even after the first few\u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/tsunamisafe/English/Pages/default.aspx\"> wave surges\u003c/a> — instead, wait for official word that it’s safe to go back. Why: There could be more waves to follow, and it’s hard to predict which wave will be the most dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>Have a disaster kit prepared\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is advice you’ve likely heard when preparing for a wildfire: Have\u003ca href=\"https://www.ready.gov/kit\"> an emergency kit prepared\u003c/a> to transport crucial items like food, water, medication and flashlights in the case of a tsunami. This is especially important if you live in a tsunami hazard zone and may not be able to return to your home immediately after evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\"> a thorough guide \u003c/a>on what to pack in a “go bag” in the case of a natural disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Make sure you are signed up for alerts\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because of the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integrated-public-alert-warning-system\">Integrated Public Alert & Warning System\u003c/a>, emergency alerts — like warnings for disasters — should appear automatically on your phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can make sure these alerts show up on your phone by heading to Settings and then Notifications. Usually, the list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963137/fema-fcc-emergency-alert\">government alerts\u003c/a> (like emergency and public safety alerts) are at the bottom of this page. Here, you can opt in and out of these alerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami-Evacuation-2-pager-11x8p5-Landscape_BACK_Rev4_large__1596555142077.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1188\" height=\"918\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reasons you may\u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integrated-public-alert-warning-system/public/wireless-emergency-alerts\"> not get an alert\u003c/a> may be due to your phone being in airplane mode, using a VPN set to a different location or your cell service does not work with the warning system. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The National Weather Service forecasts that \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2025/07/29/t06p1k/5/WEAK51/WEAK51.txt\">a potential tsunami would arrive on the San Francisco coast at 12:40 a.m.\u003c/a> early Wednesday morning. The current estimate is waves of less than 1 foot.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>By contrast, the NWS prediction for Crescent City, close to the Oregon border, is between 2.9 and 4.8 feet with a potential duration of wave activity of 30 hours.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can find the latest updates at\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/\"> tsunami.gov\u003c/a>, and jump straight to our information on \u003ca href=\"#C\">how to prepare for a possible tsunami.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Our original story from March 2025 on tsunami preparedness:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While December 2024 may feel like a lifetime ago at this stage, it was only a little over three months ago that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016827/pair-of-large-earthquakes-rattle-northern-california-and-trigger-tsunami-warning\">a magnitude 7.0 earthquake\u003c/a> off the coast of Humboldt County triggered a widespread tsunami warning for \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/tsunami-warning-issued-on-west-coast-after-earthquake-strikes-off-california\">at least 5.3 million \u003c/a>Northern California residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reactions to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016827/pair-of-large-earthquakes-rattle-northern-california-and-trigger-tsunami-warning\">Dec. 5 message\u003c/a> — which warned “You are in danger” and urged people to “Get away from coastal waters” — varied. Some people\u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/article/california-tsunami-alert\"> panicked\u003c/a> as residents in areas like West Berkeley fled their homes following evacuation orders and Oakland schools sheltered in place. Other people \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/zaygranet/status/1864745653836091828\">posted through it\u003c/a> on social media — as many are inclined to do in \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/even-better/23892562/messy-art-posting-through-it-instagram-tiktok\">anxiety-provoking \u003c/a>situations:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In a few hours, the alert was withdrawn — causing many Californians to dismiss the warning’s validity altogether. And while there is an\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016934/qa-imperfect-science-behind-tsunami-warnings\"> “imperfect science”\u003c/a> behind tsunami warnings, experts said they wanted to make sure people didn’t see that day as a “false alarm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">When was the last major tsunami in California?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#B\">How far inland could a tsunami reach in the Bay Area?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#C\">How can I prepare for a tsunami?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“The alert issued today was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016827/pair-of-large-earthquakes-rattle-northern-california-and-trigger-tsunami-warning\">highest level of tsunami warning \u003c/a>that we have,” Justin Schorr, a rescue captain with the San Francisco Fire Department, told KQED that day. “If we weren’t prepared today to evacuate inland or to higher ground, this gives us a great opportunity to be prepared for next time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-18/these-california-coastal-cities-face-heightened-flood-danger-from-tsunami-data-show\">experts\u003c/a> said that the need to be aware of tsunami hazard zones is even more pressing in the light of research showing the risk of damaging\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-18/these-california-coastal-cities-face-heightened-flood-danger-from-tsunami-data-show\"> tsunami flooding\u003c/a> to coastal cities may be even greater than realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be to our advantage that [the December alert is] fresh in people’s minds,” said Lori Nezhura, deputy director of planning, preparedness, prevention at the Cal OES. “I hope that recent experience will drive people to seriously think about what could happen and how they should prepare for a tsunami in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nezhura called the act of preparing for an emergency as developing “muscle memory” — and “you’ve got to stretch and exercise it every now and then otherwise, you forget you’ve got that muscle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you were one of the many people who took little or no action — or just didn’t know what to do — on Dec. 5 after that tsunami alert, what \u003cem>should \u003c/em>you do if that “next time” comes, and your phone receives another warning one day? Keep reading for what experts advise.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Do tsunamis even happen in California?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130211\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Crescent2011_0524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The aftermath of a tsunami in Crescent City harbor, Del Norte County, March 12, 2011. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tsunamis — giant waves that can be triggered by an earthquake, undersea volcanic eruption, \u003ca href=\"https://abag.ca.gov/our-work/resilience/data-research/tsunami-additional-hazards#:~:text=Tsunamis%20affecting%20the%20Bay%20Area,triggered%20by%20the%201906%20earthquake).\">seismic activity\u003c/a> or landslide — are relatively \u003ca href=\"https://myhazards.caloes.ca.gov/\">rare along California\u003c/a>’s shores, but they do happen. According to the state, since 1800, more than 150 tsunamis have hit parts of California. But even though many of those have been\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/index/Pages/News/New-Tsunami-Hazard-Maps-Alameda-Monterey-San-Mateo.aspx\"> “barely noticeable,”\u003c/a> the officials at Cal OES stress that “the entire California coastline \u003ca href=\"https://myhazards.caloes.ca.gov/\">is vulnerable \u003c/a>to these events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s most destructive tsunami hit in 1964 in Crescent City near the Oregon border. 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And more recently, in 2022, the collapse of a volcano near New Zealand and Fiji led to a tsunami that caused up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/Documents/Tsunami/california-tsunami-history-poster-a11y.pdf\">$10 million (PDF)\u003c/a> in damage along California’s coasts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-22/the-tsunami-that-battered-santa-cruz-highlights-the-threat-facing-californias-coast\">with Santa Cruz\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/tonga\"> Ventura\u003c/a> particularly affected.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/bP_AIWgknfI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/bP_AIWgknfI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Related: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016913/what-would-a-tsunami-in-the-bay-area-actually-look-like\">What would a tsunami in the Bay Area actually look like?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Who sends tsunami alerts, and how serious are they? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Monterey-based National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Garcia told KQED that local offices are “wholly and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016934/qa-imperfect-science-behind-tsunami-warnings\">completely dependent”\u003c/a> on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/\">National Tsunami Warning Center\u003c/a>, which is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — a federal agency that faced\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029178/trumps-mass-layoffs-noaa-cut-into-bay-area-weather-service\"> major cuts \u003c/a>by President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When the Center issues a tsunami warning, “it triggers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994754/emergency-alert-phone-earthquake-test-2024-myshake\">the Wireless Emergency Alert\u003c/a> that hits your phones immediately from their office,” Garcia said. “So it doesn’t even come to our local [NWS] office before it hits the Wireless Emergency Alerts across phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different types of alerts pop up on your phone during natural disasters — like an earthquake, or a tsunami — and they require different responses from you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A tsunami warning\u003c/strong> is issued when “a tsunami with the potential to generate \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/?page=tsunamiFAQ\">widespread inundation [flooding] \u003c/a>is imminent, expected, or occurring” and is the highest level of alert. Emergency management officials will start to take action immediately. Warnings can be updated or downgraded, but usually will urge people to\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunamizone.org/wp-content/themes/tsunami/downloads/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages.png\"> move to high ground \u003c/a>or inland. (More on this below)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A tsunami advisory\u003c/strong> is given when a tsunami has the potential to generate strong currents or dangerous waves to those nearby. An advisory may lead to closed beaches and evacuated harbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A tsunami watch\u003c/strong> is issued when a tsunami may impact the area, and people “should prepare \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/?page=tsunamiFAQ\">to take action\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A tsunami information statement\u003c/strong> is given when there is no threat of a destructive tsunami, but an earthquake or a tsunami has occurred that may be of interest to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12032508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-800x1162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1162\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-800x1162.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-1020x1481.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-160x232.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-1058x1536.png 1058w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-1410x2048.png 1410w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami_Infographic_Warning_Messages-1920x2788.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Where in the Bay Area is most at risk during a tsunami?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents can look up their neighborhood’s risk of being flooded by a tsunami online using:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Cal OES\u003ca href=\"https://myhazards.caloes.ca.gov/\"> MyHazards maps\u003c/a> (which you can also use to look up your flood, earthquake and fire risks).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California’s Department of Conservation \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps\">Tsunami Maps\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1260px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image-3-21-25-at-1.40%E2%80%AFPM-scaled-e1742589760932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image-3-21-25-at-1.40 PM-scaled-e1742589760932.jpg 1260w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image-3-21-25-at-1.40 PM-scaled-e1742589760932-800x575.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image-3-21-25-at-1.40 PM-scaled-e1742589760932-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image-3-21-25-at-1.40 PM-scaled-e1742589760932-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1260px) 100vw, 1260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps\">California tsunami hazard areas\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(California Geological Survey/Department of Conservation )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These maps highlight “hazard areas,” meaning areas you should\u003ca href=\"https://cadoc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=61bc8d30b53e4fb5927ae199d31f5aef&_gl=1*ur4cka*_ga*MTAxOTQ3NTE0Mi4xNzE4NzI0MDg3*_ga_N4MB98DBXY*MTcyNDI1MjIzMS4xOC4xLjE3MjQyNTMzMDAuMC4wLjA.\"> leave immediately\u003c/a> if a tsunami warning was issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say anywhere you have people in close proximity or a large urban population in a tsunami zone, it’s extremely vulnerable,” said Nezhura from the Cal OES.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She emphasized that residents should use the maps to zoom into specific areas and zero in on neighborhoods with highest risk. For example, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-12-23/where-is-most-at-risk-for-tsunami-flooding-in-norcal-check-these-maps\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, places deemed at high risk from a tsunami include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Ferry Building\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Palace of Fine Arts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fisherman’s Wharf\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Parts of the Marina\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Parts of SOMA\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Parts of the Richmond\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Parts of Outer Sunset\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Another example would be the East Bay, where the city of Alameda is labeled as high risk, as well as parts of Oakland. In past tsunamis, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-22/the-tsunami-that-battered-santa-cruz-highlights-the-threat-facing-californias-coast\">places like Santa Cruz\u003c/a> have also been hit especially hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your county may also have its own map to assess the tsunami risk where you live or work, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/alameda\">Alameda County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/contra-costa\">Contra Costa County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/marin\">Marin County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/napa\">Napa County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/san-francisco\">San Francisco County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/san-mateo\">San Mateo County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/santa-clara\">Santa Clara County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/santa-cruz\">Santa Cruz County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/solano\">Solano County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps/sonoma\">Sonoma County Tsunami Hazard Areas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If I get another tsunami warning, what should I do? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you are in an earthquake, take cover\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a tsunami in California could be triggered by an earthquake \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/earthquakes/tsunami-california-coast-earthquakes/3575644/#:~:text=Although%20not%20nearly%20as%20destructive,Crescent%20City%20and%20Santa%20Cruz.\">as far away as Japan\u003c/a>, tsunamis can also be caused by more local quakes — meaning you could technically face an earthquake followed by a tsunami in quick succession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, the Bay Area is more likely to see a tsunami triggered by further earthquakes rather than local ones. And despite every Bay Area resident’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1936949/do-little-quakes-mean-the-big-one-is-close-at-hand\"> anxiety about the “Big One” \u003c/a>hitting our region, experts told KQED in 2017 that an earthquake specifically along the San Andreas fault is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10628782/what-would-really-happen-if-a-tsunami-hit-san-francisco\">unlikely to produce \u003c/a>a major tsunami due to the type of movement exhibited by these tectonic plates. However, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Preparedness/Documents/CalOES_FactSheet_Cascadia_v2023_06_22-final.pdf\">Cascadia Subduction Zone (PDF)\u003c/a> — a fault that stretches from Northern California to Vancouver Island, Canada — could pose a future\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one\"> earthquake and tsunami risk \u003c/a>to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you\u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/tsunamisafe/English/Pages/default.aspx\"> feel an earthquake\u003c/a>, drop, take cover under a structure like a desk, hold onto it and cover your\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/Documents/Tsunami/How-to-Survive-a-Tsunami.pdf\"> head and neck (PDF)\u003c/a>. Do not stand in a doorway, since it cannot protect you from \u003ca href=\"https://ok.ng.mil/Portals/56/Safety/The%20Great%20ShakeOut%20-%20OCT%2021st.pdf\">falling debris (PDF)\u003c/a> — and do not run outside, since you could get hit by\u003ca href=\"https://ok.ng.mil/Portals/56/Safety/The%20Great%20ShakeOut%20-%20OCT%2021st.pdf\"> masonry and glass (PDF)\u003c/a>. KQED has a thorough guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\">how to prepare \u003c/a>for the next big quake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even during small earthquakes, if you are near a beach, experts recommend that you run to high ground — like a nearby hill — immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032527\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_0542_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tsunami warning sign from Crescent City, Del Norte County, on March 11, 2011. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/Climate Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know your evacuation routes — and how long you have to flee the coast\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large tsunami can flood a coast \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/?page=tsunamiFAQ\">for a mile inland\u003c/a> — and even small ones can cause damage by sweeping up debris that can hit people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tsunami that’s been triggered by an earthquake far away could take several hours to hit the Bay. But a tsunami that’s triggered by a local earthquake will begin much faster and could only give \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/index/Pages/News/CGS-Issues-New-Tsunami-Maps-for-Humboldt-County.aspx\">you a few minutes\u003c/a> to get away from the coast before the wave hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best practice during a tsunami warning is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Get at least\u003ca href=\"https://www.ready.gov/tsunamis\"> one mile inland.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Find high ground, like a hill that is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ready.gov/tsunamis\">100 feet or more \u003c/a>above sea level.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Or go to\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunami.gov/?page=tsunamiFAQ\"> the upper floors \u003c/a>of a sturdy building if you’re unable to find or reach high ground.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As a last resort, climb a tree.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>To plan an evacuation route, use the\u003ca href=\"https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/informationwarehouse/ts_evacuation/#data_s=id%3AdataSource_3-1918f9f263a-layer-15%3A38\"> Tsunami Hazard Map\u003c/a> to determine if you live or work in a hazard “yellow zone” and how far you need to travel to reach a safer “green zone.” Bear in mind that you may need to evacuate on foot if the tsunami has been caused by an earthquake that’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/tsunamisafe/English/Pages/default.aspx\"> damaged nearby roads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are outside of the hazard zone when a tsunami hits, the good news is that you should be safe — and in fact, officials urge you \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/tsunamisafe/English/Pages/default.aspx\">not to contribute to traffic\u003c/a> by trying to evacuate, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once you’re away from the coast, stay away from the coast\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t return to coastal areas, even after the first few\u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/tsunamisafe/English/Pages/default.aspx\"> wave surges\u003c/a> — instead, wait for official word that it’s safe to go back. Why: There could be more waves to follow, and it’s hard to predict which wave will be the most dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>Have a disaster kit prepared\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is advice you’ve likely heard when preparing for a wildfire: Have\u003ca href=\"https://www.ready.gov/kit\"> an emergency kit prepared\u003c/a> to transport crucial items like food, water, medication and flashlights in the case of a tsunami. This is especially important if you live in a tsunami hazard zone and may not be able to return to your home immediately after evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\"> a thorough guide \u003c/a>on what to pack in a “go bag” in the case of a natural disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Make sure you are signed up for alerts\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because of the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integrated-public-alert-warning-system\">Integrated Public Alert & Warning System\u003c/a>, emergency alerts — like warnings for disasters — should appear automatically on your phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can make sure these alerts show up on your phone by heading to Settings and then Notifications. Usually, the list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963137/fema-fcc-emergency-alert\">government alerts\u003c/a> (like emergency and public safety alerts) are at the bottom of this page. Here, you can opt in and out of these alerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Tsunami-Evacuation-2-pager-11x8p5-Landscape_BACK_Rev4_large__1596555142077.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1188\" height=\"918\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reasons you may\u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integrated-public-alert-warning-system/public/wireless-emergency-alerts\"> not get an alert\u003c/a> may be due to your phone being in airplane mode, using a VPN set to a different location or your cell service does not work with the warning system. Read more about\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963137/fema-fcc-emergency-alert\"> troubleshooting emergency alerts \u003c/a>on your phone\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963137/fema-fcc-emergency-alert\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also sign up for state or county-specific alert system, like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calalerts.org/\">CalAlerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/emergencysite/documents/ACAlertSignUp.pdf\">AC Alerts (Alameda County)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/alameda/\">Alameda County Nixle alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cocosheriff.org/disaster-preparedness/community-warning-system\">Contra Costa County’s Community Warning System\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/contra-costa/\">Contra Costa County Nixle alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.gov/pages/alertmarin\">Alert Marin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://readynapacounty.org/214/ALERT-Napa-County\">Alert Napa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/napa/\">Napa County Nixle alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sfdem.org/public-alerts\">AlertSF (San Francisco County)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/dem/smc-alert\">SMC Alert (San Mateo County)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://oem.santaclaracounty.gov/prepare-4-steps/register-alerts\">AlertSCC (Santa Clara County)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/santa-clara/\">Santa Clara County Nixle alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzcountyca.gov/OR3/Response/PlanandPrepare/AlertNotificationApplication.aspx\">Cruz Aware\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/453003085614570/new\">Alert Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/get-ready/sign-up/socoalert/\">SoCoAlert (Sonoma County)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/sonoma/\">Sonoma County Nixle alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>More tsunami preparedness resources\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>State of Oregon’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/tsunamisafe/English/Pages/default.aspx\">Tsunami Preparedness Lesson Plan\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsunamizone.org/\">The Tsunami Zone\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf72.org/\">SF72\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami\">The California Department of Conversation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-director/operations/planning-preparedness-prevention/seismic-hazards/tsunami-preparedness/\">Cal OES’s Tsunami Preparedness\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting by KQED’s Dan Brekke, Carly Severn and Katie DeBenedetti.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Mary Ellen Carroll’s phone blared an emergency weather alert just before 6 a.m. Saturday, she paid it little mind. As San Francisco’s top emergency management official, she had known a day earlier that a severe thunderstorm would possibly bring flash flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she poured her first cup of coffee and checked in with her staff, she realized San Francisco was dealing with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018356/the-tornado-warning-is-over-heres-why-it-was-issued\">something entirely new\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that it was a tornado [warning] came out of nowhere,” said Carroll, executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management. “It took us a second because we didn’t have messaging for tornadoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s first-ever tornado warning lasted less than half an hour before the National Weather Service canceled it. Although straight-line winds of up to 80 mph were recorded around Golden Gate Park and the Mission District, there was no evidence of a tornado — leaving some residents questioning the messaging, especially after a tsunami warning had spurred a scrambled response less than two weeks earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the small Santa Cruz County mountain town of Scotts Valley, on the other hand, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018406/tornado-hits-santa-cruz-county\">a twister touched down\u003c/a> early Saturday afternoon, causing several hundred thousand dollars in damage by flipping several cars and wrenching traffic signals from concrete — yet there was no tornado warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The path of the storm that prompted the National Weather Service’s tornado warning for San Francisco on Dec. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Monteverdi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People were just out Christmas shopping and getting ready for the holidays,” said Mali LaGoe, city manager for Scotts Valley. “It was originally reported as a six-car pileup because no one could believe it was actually a tornado.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With two tornadic moments in eight hours, weather experts questioned why the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for San Francisco but not Scotts Valley. The weather service defended its messaging, stating national guidelines limit when it can trigger phone alerts: A low-level severe thunderstorm like the one forecast for Scotts Valley doesn’t qualify, but a tornado — when the signs are clearly in view — does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Monteverdi, emeritus professor of meteorology at San Francisco State University, thinks the San Francisco warning was justified. Still, for Scotts Valley, he isn’t sure why the weather service “didn’t issue a tornado warning because, to me, this was a stronger rotation than they saw for San Francisco. Tornadoes can occur without warning in severe thunderstorms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a tornado warning is very rare for the region, Monteverdi said tornadoes themselves are “infrequent in California, but not rare” because they are part of the state’s climatology and weather patterns. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/sp3/plot.php?lat=37.755&lon=121.466&zoom=280&mode=0&bdate=19510411/1200&edate=20231215/1200&torflag=1&windflag=-1&hailflag=-1&t01=0&t02=5&t03=0&t04=9999&t05=0&t06=9999&t07=0&t08=9999&t09=0&t10=9999&h01=0&h02=9999&w01=0&w02=9999&showt=0&legend=1&showh=0&showw=0\">details more than 100 tornadoes across the state since 1950\u003c/a>, including a smattering of twisters across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-800x426.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1020x544.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-160x85.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1536x819.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1920x1023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The path of the storm and tornado that took place in Scotts Valley on Dec. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Monteverdi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tornadoes are rare in mountainous areas — like Scotts Valley — but less so along the coast and Central Valley, Monteverdi said. But occasionally, when a storm is large enough and warm and cold air masses collide, a spiral of air can move upward and “be a precursor to a Wizard of Oz type of tornado, which happened down in Scotts Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tornadoes often stem from severe thunderstorms. While there’s no scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is increasing the frequency of tornadoes, there is evidence that the intensity of thunderstorms is likely accelerating as the climate warms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stands to reason that when the conditions are otherwise favorable, perhaps a greater fraction of thunderstorms could occur in environments favorable for tornadoes,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service plans to run simulations of last weekend’s storm to assess whether warnings should come sooner next time in both cities. Brian Garcia, warning coordination meteorologist for the agency’s Bay Area office, acknowledged that thunderstorms are becoming more intense and noted that, as a result, the frequency of tornadoes might also increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018670\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12018670\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-800x702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-800x702.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 100 tornadoes have made landfall in California since 1950. Each red signature marks a tornado landfall. \u003ccite>(SPC National Severe Weather Database Browser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We can’t wait for perfect data 10 to 40 years down the road,” he said. “We’ve got to start acting now like it is caused by climate change so we can lean forward and hopefully protect more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Garcia defended how the agency handled its messaging during the storm. A wireless emergency alert went out for San Francisco but not the Santa Cruz area because the weather service has a national threshold for alerting on severe thunderstorms based on forecast potential destruction, which Garcia said is defined by 80 mph winds and or baseball-sized hail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Santa Cruz area, which means that media outlets and localities have a choice in how they message the public, but cellphones are not automatically alerted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia argued that while the word “tornado” sounds scarier, a severe thunderstorm carries just as much destructive power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either way you shake it, both a severe thunderstorm and tornado warning tell you to seek shelter in an interior room of your house or the lowest floor of your home,” he said. “To try to have a one-size-fits-all all for everybody is obviously a holy grail. But it’s also not going to happen. We’re not going to be able to speak to everybody in the way that they can take an appropriate response to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018475 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-17-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaGoe in Scotts Valley and Carroll in San Francisco said they felt the weather service operated within reason. However, they said the more significant effect of the storm is that residents now know tornadoes are possible where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This event was a wake-up call as far as what is possible and how we prepare for the future,” LaGoe said. “This isn’t tornado alley, and I think it’s highly unlikely to happen again. But it’s just something we all need to recognize could happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll said there was “very little wiggle room” for any other actions her department could have taken to protect San Franciscans from the storm, which ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018475/no-tornado-sf-crews-still-working-clear-hundreds-downed-trees\">downed more than 400 trees\u003c/a> but did not lead to any reported injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Department of Emergency Management has another option: using sirens to alert the public of a tornado. However, Carroll said the outdoor public warning system, built in the 1950s to warn residents of Cold War threats, was turned off in 2019 due to security vulnerabilities. The system could be restored, she said, but it could cost more than $20 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone alerts are a more efficient real-time solution, Carroll said, because “cellphones are like our mini sirens, and they’re much more effective because they have more information than a siren.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll said her department is now prepared with messaging in case of another future tornado warning. But after the recent phone alerts for a tsunami and a tornado didn’t pan out, she worries residents won’t take the messaging seriously and see city contact as “a boy who cried wolf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Although straight-line winds of up to 80 mph were recorded around Golden Gate Park and the Mission District, there was no evidence of a tornado — leaving some residents questioning the messaging, especially after a tsunami warning had spurred a scrambled response less than two weeks earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the small Santa Cruz County mountain town of Scotts Valley, on the other hand, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018406/tornado-hits-santa-cruz-county\">a twister touched down\u003c/a> early Saturday afternoon, causing several hundred thousand dollars in damage by flipping several cars and wrenching traffic signals from concrete — yet there was no tornado warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The path of the storm that prompted the National Weather Service’s tornado warning for San Francisco on Dec. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Monteverdi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People were just out Christmas shopping and getting ready for the holidays,” said Mali LaGoe, city manager for Scotts Valley. “It was originally reported as a six-car pileup because no one could believe it was actually a tornado.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With two tornadic moments in eight hours, weather experts questioned why the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for San Francisco but not Scotts Valley. The weather service defended its messaging, stating national guidelines limit when it can trigger phone alerts: A low-level severe thunderstorm like the one forecast for Scotts Valley doesn’t qualify, but a tornado — when the signs are clearly in view — does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Monteverdi, emeritus professor of meteorology at San Francisco State University, thinks the San Francisco warning was justified. Still, for Scotts Valley, he isn’t sure why the weather service “didn’t issue a tornado warning because, to me, this was a stronger rotation than they saw for San Francisco. Tornadoes can occur without warning in severe thunderstorms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a tornado warning is very rare for the region, Monteverdi said tornadoes themselves are “infrequent in California, but not rare” because they are part of the state’s climatology and weather patterns. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/sp3/plot.php?lat=37.755&lon=121.466&zoom=280&mode=0&bdate=19510411/1200&edate=20231215/1200&torflag=1&windflag=-1&hailflag=-1&t01=0&t02=5&t03=0&t04=9999&t05=0&t06=9999&t07=0&t08=9999&t09=0&t10=9999&h01=0&h02=9999&w01=0&w02=9999&showt=0&legend=1&showh=0&showw=0\">details more than 100 tornadoes across the state since 1950\u003c/a>, including a smattering of twisters across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-800x426.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1020x544.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-160x85.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1536x819.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1920x1023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The path of the storm and tornado that took place in Scotts Valley on Dec. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Monteverdi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tornadoes are rare in mountainous areas — like Scotts Valley — but less so along the coast and Central Valley, Monteverdi said. 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Brian Garcia, warning coordination meteorologist for the agency’s Bay Area office, acknowledged that thunderstorms are becoming more intense and noted that, as a result, the frequency of tornadoes might also increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018670\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12018670\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-800x702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-800x702.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 100 tornadoes have made landfall in California since 1950. 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"content": "\u003cp>When a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Humboldt County coast this month, and federal forecasters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016827/pair-of-large-earthquakes-rattle-northern-california-and-trigger-tsunami-warning\">warned that a tsunami would arrive\u003c/a> in the Bay Area within 80 minutes, officials throughout the region scrambled to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several cities and counties warned residents they should head for higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley went further. Guided by \u003ca href=\"https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/informationwarehouse/ts_evacuation/\">an inundation map\u003c/a> from the California Geological Survey representing the worst-case flooding impacts from a potential tsunami, the city issued a mandatory evacuation order for areas along its bay shore. Emergency speakers blared warnings. Police and fire personnel cleared people from the waterfront. Schools and businesses, including some outside the danger zone, emptied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as all these steps were completed, the National Tsunami Warning Center — which had forecast a tsunami of at least 3 feet — canceled the alert when it became apparent there was no threat anywhere along the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Berkeley officials are defending the aggressiveness of their response to the Dec. 5 alert while saying they’d like to see \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017058/how-confusion-over-californias-tsunami-warning-shows-limits-us-forecasting\">improvements in how tsunami warnings are handled\u003c/a> in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12016878 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg\" alt=\"People look out over a railing into an open space.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for signs of a tsunami from an overlook point at Brickyard Cove in Berkeley on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city recognizes that the evacuation order raised concerns about “over-alerting and crying wolf,” Sarah Lana, Berkeley’s emergency manager, said in an interview last week. “I know that some people are concerned that the tsunami didn’t come, and we recognize that it’s a very significant impact to people, to their families, to their businesses, to do a big evacuation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question that has taken on renewed importance for emergency response officials after San Franciscans were jolted awake by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018356/the-tornado-warning-is-over-heres-why-it-was-issued\">a tornado warning\u003c/a> on Saturday morning — the Bay Area’s second wireless emergency alert in as many weeks. That warning again left many wondering how they were supposed to respond to such an unfamiliar alert for the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of the final determination of what kind of storm it was, residents were understandably anxious to receive an alert about something we don’t associate with our region,” the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SF_emergency/status/1868087841802338321/photo/1\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. “Heightening the concern is the fact that this is the second WEA in the past two weeks for hazards with low probability like tornados and tsunamis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018468 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-04-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lana said several factors came together to prompt Berkeley’s tsunami evacuation order, including that the National Tsunami Warning Center had issued its highest level of alert and that the state’s inundation map showed a serious threat to West Berkeley. The location of the earthquake, about 225 miles northwest of the Golden Gate, was also crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This earthquake was so close, relatively speaking, to the Bay Area that the processes for measuring and confirming this tsunami were just not fast enough for us to be able to wait on taking action,” Lana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Places such as San Francisco, San Mateo County, Alameda County and the city of Fremont warned residents to head for higher ground after the tsunami warning but did not roll out widespread evacuation orders like Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lana said it’s important for emergency officials to be able to act even “with not all the information they need.” That means trusting guidance from federal and state sources about potential threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been working very hard on providing guidance that we can implement quickly when the time comes. 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But that’s par for the course — especially in this region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is we live in earthquake country,” said Robert de Groot, operations coordinator of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shakealert.org/\">ShakeAlert\u003c/a>, an earthquake early warning system operated by the U.S. Geological Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continued aftershocks of 3.0 or 4.0 magnitude are more than 99% and 98% certain, respectively, for at least the next week, according to de Groot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The chances of earthquakes from this event begin to dwindle over time and they decrease in terms of number,” he said, noting that larger aftershocks are unlikely. There’s only about a 5% chance that anything nearing a 6.0 magnitude aftershock could happen, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The epicenter of the initial 7.0 temblor which struck at 10:44 a.m. about 40 miles off the Humboldt coast, is on the active Mendocino Fault, where the Pacific, Juan de Fuca and North American tectonic plates meet — and where the San Andreas Fault ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-8OXaW\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"Northern California magnitude 7.0 earthquake intensity\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8OXaW/4/\" height=\"544\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Locator map\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\n\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earthquake prompted a tsunami warning that reached more than 5 million people, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWS_NTWC/status/1864746520924618813\">from Southern Oregon to Santa Cruz County\u003c/a>. The warning, which was canceled just over an hour later, prompted BART to temporarily stop service in the Transbay Tube and drove thousands of Northern California residents to temporarily evacuate in search of higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three minutes later, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit near Lake and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ShakeAlert system alerted around 4.5 million people, some as far as Salinas in Monterey County, de Groot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Groot said aftershocks are not likely to happen along the San Andreas Fault — which extends some 750 miles south through California — because they typically happen closer to the epicenter of the initial earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think of it as parts of that fault that didn't move quite as far as it should’ve, so it’s not like you’re going to have earthquakes in this region and all of a sudden have an earthquake that’s down in Hayward or in Berkeley,” he said. “That’s way too far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017174\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12017174 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-800x485.png\" alt=\"A map of earthquakes and faultlines.\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-800x485.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-1020x618.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-1536x931.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM.png 1746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aftershocks since a 7.0 magnitude 7.0 earthquake (orange) struck off the coast of Humboldt County at 10:44 a.m. Thursday. Fault lines are marked in red. Source: USGS \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Roland Bürgmann, a geophysics professor at UC Berkeley, says it’s still important to keep an eye on the San Andreas Fault right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Andreas Fault ends right where the aftershocks end from this last event,” said Bürgmann, emphasizing that the location of the earthquake's epicenter remains “very active.” “So that means the San Andreas Fault is feeling a lot of pressure right now. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continued aftershocks of 3.0 or 4.0 magnitude are more than 99% and 98% certain, respectively, for at least the next week, according to de Groot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The chances of earthquakes from this event begin to dwindle over time and they decrease in terms of number,” he said, noting that larger aftershocks are unlikely. There’s only about a 5% chance that anything nearing a 6.0 magnitude aftershock could happen, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The epicenter of the initial 7.0 temblor which struck at 10:44 a.m. about 40 miles off the Humboldt coast, is on the active Mendocino Fault, where the Pacific, Juan de Fuca and North American tectonic plates meet — and where the San Andreas Fault ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-8OXaW\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"Northern California magnitude 7.0 earthquake intensity\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8OXaW/4/\" height=\"544\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Locator map\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\n\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earthquake prompted a tsunami warning that reached more than 5 million people, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWS_NTWC/status/1864746520924618813\">from Southern Oregon to Santa Cruz County\u003c/a>. The warning, which was canceled just over an hour later, prompted BART to temporarily stop service in the Transbay Tube and drove thousands of Northern California residents to temporarily evacuate in search of higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three minutes later, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit near Lake and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ShakeAlert system alerted around 4.5 million people, some as far as Salinas in Monterey County, de Groot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Groot said aftershocks are not likely to happen along the San Andreas Fault — which extends some 750 miles south through California — because they typically happen closer to the epicenter of the initial earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think of it as parts of that fault that didn't move quite as far as it should’ve, so it’s not like you’re going to have earthquakes in this region and all of a sudden have an earthquake that’s down in Hayward or in Berkeley,” he said. “That’s way too far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017174\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12017174 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-800x485.png\" alt=\"A map of earthquakes and faultlines.\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-800x485.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-1020x618.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-1536x931.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM.png 1746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aftershocks since a 7.0 magnitude 7.0 earthquake (orange) struck off the coast of Humboldt County at 10:44 a.m. Thursday. Fault lines are marked in red. Source: USGS \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Roland Bürgmann, a geophysics professor at UC Berkeley, says it’s still important to keep an eye on the San Andreas Fault right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Andreas Fault ends right where the aftershocks end from this last event,” said Bürgmann, emphasizing that the location of the earthquake's epicenter remains “very active.” “So that means the San Andreas Fault is feeling a lot of pressure right now. 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"content": "\u003cp>After Thursday’s blaring tsunami alert sent out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016827/pair-of-large-earthquakes-rattle-northern-california-and-trigger-tsunami-warning\">a wave of confusion across Northern California\u003c/a>, authorities are using it as a lesson in preparing for future disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one expert in Humboldt said the day reveals just how much the country has to learn about forecasting tsunamis, calling it “deja vu all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lori Dengler, an emeritus professor of geology at Cal Poly Humboldt, not much has changed about the U.S.’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016934/qa-imperfect-science-behind-tsunami-warnings\">tsunami warning system\u003c/a> since a similar near-coast earthquake hit in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire West Coast from San Diego up to the Canadian border was put into a tsunami warning and a tsunami did not materialize,” she said. “[The U.S.] is still in the relative infancy or maybe toddlerhood of the tsunami warning world in terms of having the kinds of instrumentation offshore, having the kinds of models to forecast [their] impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until the 1990s that many people realized that tsunamis don’t only come to the West Coast from far away, she said. They can actually originate as close as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault that spans a long stretch about 100 miles offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016883\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-015-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFFD arrives on the scene to evacuate people for a tsunami warning at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. officially began tsunami forecasting in 1949 and has opened two Tsunami Warning Centers in Alaska and Hawaii since. The centers’ notifications have three levels of ascending seriousness: watch, advisory, and what was issued Thursday: warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dengler said there are a lot of shades of grey under that “warning” umbrella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Japan, they have three levels of tsunami warnings,” she told KQED. “They have a small tsunami, a medium tsunami and a big tsunami. In the U.S., we just have one level. We just have ‘warning.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earthquake that meets a prespecified set of standards based on magnitude, location and depth triggers a warning, no matter how close, or far, from the cut-off it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map of at-risk zones and guidance for a local response, when there’s a warning issued, is based on a model researchers designed for a worst-case earthquake event on that underwater Cascadia fault — “the big one” — Dengler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://kqedsf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=3e222feda41b4d1097acecb377cb1b5a\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Map by Matthew Green/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The tsunami hazard area (shaded orange) represents the “maximum considered tsunami runup from several extreme, infrequent, and realistic tsunami sources,” according to the California Department of Conservation, which provided the geographic data for this map.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a ‘little’ tsunami evacuation zone,” Dengler said. “We can’t tell people, ‘This is only a tsunami ‘C,’ not a tsunami ‘B’ or ‘A,’ and so these are the only areas that are at risk because we don’t have the basic science or the instrumentation to be able to do that level of detail yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Thursday’s tsunami warning — which many people have been tempted to deem an overreaction — was so far-reaching, and confusing for even city governments trying to decide how to keep their populations safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley probably took the warning most seriously, implementing an evacuation order for West Berkeley’s evacuation zone within about a half hour. Fourth Street businesses closed\u003cem>, \u003c/em>Interstate 80’s onramp at University Avenue shut down and at least one \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/05/tsunami-warning-issued-for-california-berkeley\">day care asked parents to pick up their kids\u003c/a> before the warning was called off less than an hour later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials there say the decision was based on state guidance after the city received the blanket “warning” Dengler referenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message indicated that a ‘Warning-level’ tsunami of at least 3 feet would hit the shores of San Francisco by 12:10pm, implying that Berkeley would likely be hit shortly thereafter,” spokesperson Matthai Chakko wrote via email. “Pre-existing state guidance indicated that such a tsunami could reach as far east as portions of 7th Street” and “prompted the City to issue an evacuation order for the affected area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for a tsunami at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other disruptions rippled throughout the bay: BART temporarily shut down service in its Transbay Tube, Salesforce Tower began an evacuation, and San Francisco warned coastal residents to move at least a block inland and avoid evacuation zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the immediate threat had passed, San Francisco fire rescue captain Justin Schorr warned residents not to write off the day as a false alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t prepared today to evacuate inland or to higher ground, this gives us a great opportunity to be prepared for next time,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how prepared is the Bay Area, and wider West Coast?[aside postID=news_12016934 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1020x679.jpg']Delger said that refining the national Tsunami Warning System would require investment in offshore instruments and more personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way right now to pull the San Francisco Bay’s communities — Alameda, the Marin County part that’s on the bay — there’s no way to pull those communities out of the warning,” she told KQED. “The system is not set up now to do localized threats within Puget Sound, within San Francisco Bay, or really parsing the details of any of the coasts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local cities also have kinks to work out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after its evacuation was called off, Berkeley sent out a survey requesting feedback about how it handled the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Alameda, resident David Howard said he didn’t receive any of the city’s text messages until after the warning had passed, though it says it sent out multiple through its alert system. Traffic was also backed up at Posey Tube, the westernmost exit off the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event of a tsunami that does materialize, Howard worries the city isn’t prepared to safely evacuate everyone who could be in a risk zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for signs of a tsunami from an overlook point at Brickyard Cove in Berkeley, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s about how do we evacuate people off the island? I don’t have faith in my government that we have a good plan,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comment from the city of Alameda was not available by the time this story was published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there was a noticeable lack of blaring emergency sirens, which residents got used to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696153/7-things-to-know-about-san-franciscos-tuesday-noon-siren\">hearing at lunchtime on Tuesdays\u003c/a> before they were taken out of commission in 2019 for repairs. The system was expected to return to service after two years, but it remains offline.[aside postID=news_12017000 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/EarthquakeSukeyLewis-1020x765.jpg']Mary Ellen Carroll, the executive director of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, said that after initial assessments, the total cost to refurbish the system ballooned from about $2 million to over $20 million, and currently, the city has no money budgeted for these repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said that the most effective channels of communication have evolved since the system was built in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Wireless Emergency Alert [WEA] yesterday is the way that we do alerting in this country for major events,” she told KQED. “The main thing is that it gave you information, whereas a siren does not. A siren just goes off, and then you have to figure out why is the siren going off. A WEA, a text alert, a phone call — those are ways that are much more effective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dengler warned, though, that in the event of a really “big one,” these methods of communication might not be ironclad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have a magnitude 9 earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, people aren’t going to get an alert because our infrastructure is likely to be damaged,” she said. “They have to know on their own what to do and where to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Carroll said repairing the existing Outdoor Public Warning System isn’t a top priority. The DEM has been looking into other ways to provide the same value — reaching people without phones when cell service or power is out — with newer technology that sends more targeted messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This upgrade, and many others being discussed to prepare the Bay Area for “the big one” will require more investment than seems to be coming from the local or federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we want a better tsunami warning system, we have to put resources into allowing our warning system to give us more quality, localized information,” Dengler said. “If we had done that, we probably would have seen a very different story in terms of the tsunami warning area for this particular event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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