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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a Tsunami Advisory for costal California, including parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, following a large earthquake off the coast of Russia.
The magnitude-8.9 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean near the coastal town of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in far-eastern Russia.
The earthquake has spawned a verified tsunami, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Given its distance from California, the tsunami waves are not expected to cause inland flooding, but will cause the tide to rise in the waters along California’s beaches and shoreline and is expected to generate dangerous waves and currents.
The Tsunami Advisory covers all of coastal California between the borders of Oregon and Mexico. The first tsunami waves are expected to reach Fort Bragg around 11:50 p.m. Pacific Time, then Monterey by 12:15 a.m. Wednesday before reaching the city of San Francisco by 12:40 a.m., according to the latest forecast.
Those within the covered Tsunami Advisory are urged to stay out of the water, move away from the beach and stay away from harbors, marinas, bays, inlets, piers and breakwaters. Those locations should be off-limits until emergency officials indicate that the tsunami threat has passed.
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