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Historical San Juan Island, modern Cortes Bank, is a high seamount, an island submerged 6 feet and more, 96 mi SW of San Pedro, 111 mi (166 km) W of Pt Loma, and 47 mi (82 km) SW of San Clemente Island. The outermost feature in the Channel Islands, it has been visible as an island from elevations on San Clemente Island on clear days, and known ...
The Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1) is closed southbound at Sweetwater Canyon Drive and northbound at McClure Tunnel. I-10 closed westbound at Lincoln Boulevard and the westbound 4th and 5th ...
The pier was evacuated and closed to all emergency responders just after 1 p.m. ... Huge waves hit California coast, Santa Cruz: 1 dead, 2 missing. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
Officials in southern California's Ventura County issued an evacuation warning on Saturday for residences along the Pacific Coast Highway and area beaches remained closed, the Ventura County Fire ...
THUMS oil island White, 2010 After a 1964 court case that gave the state of California mineral rights to the area, [ 4 ] the islands were built at an estimated cost of $22 million in 1965. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The islands were operated by THUMS, a consortium named after the parent companies who bid for the island contract: Texaco , Humble , Union Oil ...
Baja California was mistakenly thought to be an island rather than a peninsula. The Californias region, which comprises California and the Baja California Peninsula, includes many coastal islands in the Pacific Ocean. California is in the United States; and the Baja California Peninsula includes the Mexican states of Baja California Sur and ...
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake was reported off the coast of Northern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The epicenter of the "strong" quake was off the coast ...
Coastal California is heavily influenced by east–west distances to the dominant cold California Current as well as microclimates.Due to hills and coast ranges having strong meteorological effects, summer and winter temperatures (other than occasional heat waves) are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 mi (16 km) away.