Tsunami Advisories have been ended for portions of Southcentral and Southeast Alaska- they continue elsewhere. Waves reached 2.9 feet at Point Reyes, 2.4 feet in Monterey, 1.1 feet in San Francisco, 0.9 feet in Alameda and 0.7 feet in Richmond.Ī #tsunami is occurring. of 4.3 feet at Port San Luis near Avila Beach, and 3.7 feet at both Crescent City, once devastated by a 1964 tsunami, and Arena Cove in Mendocino County. “So it’s still a dangerous situation out there.”Īlong the West Coast, the weather service reported the highest waves as of 11:15 a.m. “We still could see a foot or two of a tsunami amplitude come in even as the tide lowers and it can still run up the beach grab you, your pets, your family, your loved ones and take you out to sea as it recedes,” said National Weather Service Meteorologist Brian Garcia. The advisory was expected to last into the evening. The tsunami waves arrived “in pulses” throughout the day, the National Weather Service said, warning they would remain hazardous with the lowering afternoon tide. In the afternoon, San Francisco firefighters and the Coast Guard rescued at least three surfers in distress. There were no reports Saturday afternoon of major injuries locally, though two fishermen were taken to a hospital after being swept into the water at San Gregorio State Beach near Pescadero. In Marin County, the harbor in Tiburon also saw flooding. The famed Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk nearby shut down for the day and a surfing competition was on hold at the city’s legendary Steamer Lane. In Santa Cruz, where the city harbor suffered $20 million in damage from a March 2011 tsunami that followed an earthquake in Japan, waves Saturday flooded the harbor parking lot with about 3 feet of water, dislodged a dredge, damaged boats and washed waste bins into the channel. In the Bay Area, officials urged residents stay away from beaches, harbors or piers, while in Berkeley the fire department issued an evacuation order to the city’s Marina neighborhood. Satellites captured the massive eruption from space, heard as far as Alaska 5,800 miles away. The worst of the flooding was Saturday morning, but the National Weather Service meteorologist Cynthia Palmer warned it was too soon to relax: “It’s not a one-and-done - this is an all-day type of event.”Ĭalifornians along the coast woke up to the tsunami advisory - the second-most severe alert, short of a warning to seek higher ground for dangerous flooding - triggered by an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean more than 5,300 miles away at Tongatapu, the largest island in Tonga, which saw its own large tsunami waves early Saturday. All eyes were on the coast, and while the drama shut down the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and disrupted the day for beachgoers, by sunset the Bay Area appeared to dodge significant damage. Waves from the biggest tsunami threat to the West Coast in more than a decade arrived early Saturday morning with the rising morning tide and continued pulsating onshore throughout the day. An undersea volcano erupted Saturday in the Pacific Ocean near Tonga, prompting tsunami advisories and evacuations along the California Coast, including San Francisco and the Monterey Bay where beaches closed as surging water flooded harbors and low-lying coastal areas.
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