When 4-foot tsunami waves crashed into the Crescent City Harbor in rural Northern California last week, the dock nearest the harbor's entrance — which was designed to absorb the brunt of the surge ...

There's a reason Crescent City, a redwood-tree lined coastal California community, is known as the tsunami capital of the country. The city has experienced more than three-dozen tsunamis in the last ...

The estimated death toll from Sunday's natural disasters surpassed 52,000 on Tuesday as workers labored to search for survivors - and bury the dead. Such astronomical death tolls and tales of human ...

Editor’s note: this story has been updated with a statement from Mike McGuire. Last week, Crescent City saw the highest recorded waves from a tsunami that hit the U.S. West Coast, triggered by a ...

The tsunami generated by the July 29 M 8.8 earthquake near Kamchatka demonstrates why Crescent City has earned the title “tsunami magnet.” By 7 P.M. PDT on July 30, the tsunami warning centers in ...

CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) — Officials warned people to stay away from beaches and waterways Wednesday in a small California coastal city near the border with Oregon that has been hit by dozens of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A small California coastal city near the border with Oregon that has recorded dozens of tsunamis, including one that killed 11 people more than 60 years ago, saw little damage ...