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The California Current (Spanish: Corriente de California) is a cold water Pacific Ocean current that moves southward along the western coast of North America, beginning off southern British Columbia and ending off southern Baja California Sur. It is considered an Eastern boundary current due to the influence of the North American coastline on ...
The US Geological Survey defines the geographic center of California about 7.1 miles (11.4 km) driving distance from the United States Forest Service office in the Northern Californian city of North Fork, California. Earth scientists typically divide the state into eleven geomorphic provinces with clearly defined boundaries.
The area includes the North Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast, and South Coast. The coastline is slowly eroding due to natural processes accelerated by climate change, though much more slowly in other places in the United States. In the last 100 years, the water line has risen less than 6 in (150 mm) along the coast of California.
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In oceanography, the Davidson Current is a coastal countercurrent of the Pacific Ocean running north along the western coast of the United States from Baja California, Mexico to northern Oregon, ending at about latitude 48°N, [1] [2] Its flow is adjacent to the California Current, but it flows north rather than south and hugs the coastline.
Date: 8 April 2016: Source: color scheme: File:Bayarea map.svg vector source: File:California Bay Area county map.svg this combination: Own work Author: color scheme: PerryPlanet at English Wikivoyage
A Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) spokesperson told USA TODAY Saturday there are about 163,000 customers without power including 67,000 in the Bay Area. California power outage map