Officials are cautioning residents to check whether they live in a tsunami zone ahead of Tsunami Preparedness Week , and there’s a grim outlook for some of coastal SoCal should worse come to worst.
The California Department of Conservation has released Tsunami Hazard Area maps and data that show the risk of a tsunami for coastal communities from the Mexico border to the Oregon state line.
The most recent data for L.A. County was published in 2021 and indicates that a large tsunami could flood “sizeable areas” of Marina del Rey and Long Beach to an elevation of 15 feet, according to Rick Wilson, head of the California Geological Survey’s Tsunami Program…