San Francisco rests on the tip of a peninsula along the northern California coast; it's flanked by the San Francisco Bay to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The city is actually much ...

encompassing roughly 270 miles of California shoreline. A stock image of a beach near San Francisco. A stock image of a beach near San Francisco. lucky-photographer/Getty The beach hazards ...

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s ...

Those findings were based on how, in 1964, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Alaska sent a tsunami toward California and did ...

She was first observed floating on the northwest side of Alcatraz Island, where she surprised a wedding photographer and had scientists paddling out to reach her to collect samples of her skin and ...