California Tsunami

• Radioactive material could reach California today: Report

  Small amount of radioactive material, blowing from Japan's damaged nuclear power plants, is expected to reach California today but experts have said the radiation would be "within safe limits" and poses no major risk, according to a media report. . (Read: Sleepy Californian town a tsunami magnet)Radioactive isotopes are being blown toward North Ame...

• Sleepy Californian town a tsunami magnet

  There are images of waves throughout Crescent City: on the signs marking the city limits, on the logo of its credit union and on the facade of Tsunami Lanes, where this city's local rollers come to bowl. But the waves capturing most of the attention in this most northern of California cities are in the harbor, where the remnants of last week's surp...

• Tsunami waves hit Hawaii and California, but damage is limited

  A tsunami emanating from the massive earthquake that hit Japan on Friday sent seven-foot waves into the Hawaiian islands, but appeared to have caused no major damage in Hawaii or along the West Coast. Peter Carlisle, the mayor of Honolulu, said Friday that the threat had subsided substantially and that coastal highways had reopened on the island of...