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Brief scare last night:
Tsunami Warning Lifted After Calif. Quake
SAN FRANCISCO — A powerful earthquake jolted the ocean floor off the Northern California coast, triggering a brief tsunami warning that sent thousands of residents evacuating a community that was hit by a killer wave four decades ago.
The feared tsunami did not materialize, and there were no reports of significant damage or injuries.
The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at around 7:50 p.m. Tuesday, 300 miles northwest of San Francisco and about 90 miles southwest of the coastal community of Crescent City, where a 1964 tsunami killed 11 people, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A tsunami warning was briefly in effect from the California-Mexico border north to Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
The tsunami siren system in Crescent City was activated at 8:14 p.m. and continued for about 40 minutes, Del Norte County Sheriff Dean Wilson said. About 4,000 people — mostly from Crescent City — were evacuated.
Wilson reported some minor traffic accidents but no injuries. He said it was the third evacuation he has taken part in in his 27 years in law enforcement.
My daughter was asking me if we were safe from any waves and I told her that since the cliffs in La Jolla were about 200 feet higher than the ocean that we'd be okay. She promptly went back to eating her pizza rolls.
The only reason we knew of the tsunami alert was from a phone call from one of our friends; the wife and I were in the middle of watching Starship Troopers when we got the call.
Fifteen minutes later the alert was cancelled and we went back to watching the movie.
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