Competition at the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach was canceled Wednesday — not because of massive tsunami waves and intense currents, but because the waves were too small. What tsunami, you ...

Such waves may have pulse crests, oh, 16 to 22 seconds apart, that travel across the ocean at some 30-50 mph before arriving to shoot up into a rideable tower at a break like Maverick’s. A Tsunami ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Tsunami waves and the California coast are not something you hear about often in our local forecast. San Diegans had different reactions as the information came down. Some ...

The U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach was called off on Wednesday due to inconsistent and small surf conditions, event organizers said. The call to cancel the surfing for the day was made at ...

No sooner had the tsunami watch been issued than the text messages began coming in. Friends and family wanted to know if I was safe. Would the waves reach me? Should I drive, or even run, to higher ...

All inhabitants along the Pacific Ocean, from Russia to Japan to Hawaii and the West Coast, were on high alert yesterday, following an earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula. The 8.7-magnitude quake ...

"Miraculously, it only killed five people.” ...

Huntington Beach is known as a wave magnet, a surf spot that is rideable just about every day of the year. But a few days a year, the ocean can look more like a lake in the beach town dubbed “Surf ...

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There are some works of art that even the most uncultured philistines of today’s culture can recognize. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” Munch’s “The Scream,” and of course, da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.” And on ...

I’m the sole paddler I know of — or have ever heard of — who has surfed a tsunami. Does this claim sound grandiose? Might it seem more cloaked in modesty if I say it took me more than 30 years to ...