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Humboldt Bay (Wiyot: Wigi) [3] is a natural bay [4] and a multi-basin, bar-built coastal lagoon [5] located on the rugged North Coast of California, entirely within Humboldt County, United States. It is the largest protected body of water on the West Coast between San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound , the second-largest enclosed bay in California ...
Crescent City, near the Oregon border, is the site of California's worst tsunami disaster in modern times, and there are vast areas around Eureka, which is next to Humboldt Bay, where there are ...
Farther north, the weather service office in Eureka, California, issued a high surf advisory that was expected to last until 11 p.m. on Thursday in coastal Del Norte, Northern Humboldt Coast ...
Between 1850 and 2004, 51 credible tsunamis were recorded in San Francisco Bay, according to 2004 research led by Lori Dengler, a professor emeritus at Cal Poly Humboldt.
The Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit 3 was a 63 MWe nuclear boiling water reactor, owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company that operated from August 1963 to July 1976 just south of Eureka, California, in an area referred to as King Salmon [2] and Fields Landing.
They included the Evening Star (1876–1878), Evening Herald (1879), Eureka News/News/Semi-Weekly News (1881) and finally Western Watchman (1884–1898) and Humboldt Mail (1887–1890). But the Times-Standard has been the only major daily newspaper of record for all Humboldt County for much of the county's history.
The Wiyot massacre refers to the atrocities on February 26, 1860, at Tuluwat (also known as Indian Island), near Eureka in Humboldt County, California. In coordinated attacks beginning at about 6 am, white settlers murdered 80 to 250 Wiyot people , mostly women and children, with axes, knives, and guns.
The Mary Ann was the primary tug in Humboldt Bay for many years. She wrecked in 1863 on the south spit of Humboldt Bay and subsequently refloated. [3] Merrimac ( United States), 22 February 1863. The tug flipped over while trying to cross the bar with loss of all on board, estimated to be 18. She was refloated and repaired. [3]