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  2. The California tsunami risk is real, even though it didn't ...

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    A tsunami warning was issued across Northern California on Thursday morning following a magnitude 7 earthquake. It's a reminder to prepare and know how to respond in case of such emergencies.

  3. Why a massive California tsunami alert was issued - AOL

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    Coastal areas in Northern California began evacuating residents after a 7.0 earthquake off Humboldt County's coast prompted a tsunami warning. Luckily, the worst didn't play out. But emergency ...

  4. Why Thursday's Tsunami Warning was issued and what it ... - AOL

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    When no damaging tsunami threat became evident, the NTWC canceled the Tsunami Warning at 11:54 a.m. Pedestrians on Ocean Beach after a tsunami warning in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday ...

  5. Teletsunami - Wikipedia

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    The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was a teletsunami.. A teletsunami (also called an ocean-wide tsunami, distant tsunami, distant-source tsunami, far-field tsunami, or trans-ocean tsunami) is a tsunami that originates from a distant source, defined as more than 1,000 km (620 mi) away or three hours' travel from the area of interest, [1] [2] sometimes travelling across an ocean.

  6. 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck - Wikipedia

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    The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with 1,000 fatalities or more. It occurred when a crowded passenger train (No 50, Matara Express) was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by a tsunami that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The tsunami subsequently caused ...

  7. The U.S. Geological Survey said that more than 5.3 million people in California were under a tsunami warning, the Associated Press reported, and that more than 1.3 million people lived close ...

  8. 2023 Greenland landslide - Wikipedia

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    The wave was caught in a narrow fjord which caused the wave to continue to slosh back and forth off the walls for the entire time, [7] resulting in a global seismic vibration, picked up all over the world, that was first confused with an earthquake.

  9. Journalist Who Lost 50 Family Members in World’s Worst ...

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    Tsunami survivor Dendy Montgomery, 46, wasn't planning on working on Dec. 26, 2004 — then the world's worst tsunami was triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia