TSUNAMI
RUN-UP CHART and EVACUATION ROUTES
YOU HAVE 2 MINUTES TO GET 100 FEET UP!
Your attitude and altitude
will save you, your family, your pets and livestock.

They depend on you - DON'T ABANDON THEM or LET THEM DOWN!

Pacific Northwest Native American Story - 1700

"The water on its rise became very warm, and as it came up to the houses, those who had canoes put their effects into them, and floated off with the current, which set very strongly to the north. MANY OF THE CANOES CAME DOWN IN TREES and were destroyed, and numerous lives were lost. WE SPENT A COLD NIGHT IN THE HILLS, SURROUNDED BY ANIMALS WHO HAVE ALSO FLED THE FLOOD. The water was four days regaining its accustomed level."

YOUR GUESTS and YOUR LIABILITY

There is always a certain amount of skepticism and denial. However, there is a LIABILITY; especially if you own a BnB, Campground, Hotel, Motel, Retreat Center, Spa or Vacation Rental Home in the "Tsunami Zone".

Liability laws are based on common sense. "Foreseeable" is an important aspect of liability. Can this event be foreseen? YES it can. Will somebody be harmed? Possibly. Is there a DUTY to protect paying guests? YES! An innkeeper has a duty to protect their guests. Does an innkeeper have a duty to protect their guests from an Act of GOD. YES! if it is a foreseeable "Act of God" and there is something they can reasonably do about it. All innkeepers along the northern California coast have constructive knowledge that a Tsunami could come. They should have a plan for their guests to evacuate to safe ground. Will signs about the property or in the room describing the risk and evacuation route be sufficient - PROBABLY. In the event a earthquake generates a Tsunami they or their agents have a duty to wake their guests even at 3 am in the morning to help evacuate and save their lives. More conscious innkeepers know there are also the "Laws of Karma".

MARIN COAST (Coming Soon)
ELEVATONS. KILLING ZONES and SAFE ZONES -

SONOMA COAST
ELEVATONS. KILLING ZONES and SAFE ZONES -
It's not your atitude, but your altitude that will save you.

VALLEY FORD - KILLING ZONE
It is Possible that the 3rd surge from a large Tsunami could move up the Estero Americana far enough to do some damage in which case there is No Safe Zone
  • ARTIST CREAMERY BUILDING on ESTERO AMERICANA = 20 Feet
  • DOWNTOWN VALLEY FORD = 60 Feet

    • BODEGA - SAFE ZONE
    unless a huge surge comes up Salmon Creek.

  • BODEGA FIRE DEPARTMENT = 100 FEET
  • BODEGA CATHOLIC CHURCH = 120 FEET
  • POTTER SCHOOL HOUSE = 120 FEET

    • BODEGA BAY - KILLING ZONE

  • DORAN BEACH STATE PARK and COAST GUARD STATION = 3 - 24 Feet
  • SPUD POINT MARINA = 10 Feet
  • MASON'S MARINA = 10 Feet
  • TIDES RESTAURANT = 12 Feet
  • COFFEE COVE = 42 Feet
  • New BODEGA BAY FIREHOUSE = 90 Feet
  • BODEGA BAY GRANGE = 90 Feet
  • PELICAN PLAZA STORE = 90 Feet

    • BODEGA BAY - SAFE ZONES - Ironically the safest spot in Bodega Bay is 150 feet up "under the wings of God" in the non-denominational Bodega Bay Church Parking Lot

  • BODEGA HARBOR GOLF COURSE (Between Entrance and Club House) - MOST OF GOLF COURSE UPPER REACHES ARE - 100 to 150 Feet
  • BODEGA HEAD MAIN PARKING LOT = 130 FEET
  • HILL to EAST Above TIDES LODGE - 120 Feet
  • BODEGA BAY CHURCH PARKING LOT = 150 Feet
  • ROADHOUSE COFFEE In Blue Whale Shopping Center = 110 Feet
  • BAY FLAT ROAD ENTRANCE TO TOP = 130 - 600 Feet

    • BODEGA BAY NORTH - KILLING ZONE (Below 100 Feet) and SAFE ZONE (Above 100 Feet)

  • SALMON CREEK BEACH = 1 - 60 Feet
  • CHANSELOR HORSE RANCH = 120 Feet
  • CARMET - SERENA DEL MAR - 60 - 225 FEET (5 blocks to the East)

    • BRIDGEHAVEN - JENNER - KILLING ZONE

  • BRIDGEHAVEN = 20 - 60 Feet
  • JENNER STORE = 12 Feet
  • MURPHYS JENNER INN = 20 Feet
  • RIVER'S END = 30 Feet

    • BRIDGEHAVEN - JENNER - SAFE ZONE

  • JENNER - UPPER STREETS = 120 Feet

    • FORT ROSS - TIMBER COVE - OCEAN COVE- KILLING ZONE

  • TIMBER COVE BOAT LANDING = 45 Feet
  • STILLWATER COVE RANCH = 75 Feet
  • OCEAN COVE CAMPGROUND = 45 - 100 Feet

    • TIMBER COVE, CALIFORNIA - Late 1990's

    "Rimpoche where in the cove is the Dragon King's head? Dragon King's head not here - it is off Washington. Washington Rimpoche?! Where is the Dragon King's tail? Dragon King's tail is off Mexico. What part of the Dragon King is in Timber Cove Rimpoche? Dragon Heart is here! Dragon King's Spirit Lives Here! (the Dragon King is the San Andreas fault).

    FORT ROSS - TIMBER COVE - OCEAN COVE SAFE ZONE

  • FORT ROSS STATE PARK = 110 Feet
  • FORT ROSS STORE = 130 Feet
  • TIMBER COVE INN PARKING LOT = 120 Feet
  • OCEAN COVE STORE Front Porch = 100 Feet
  • OCEAN COVE CAMPGROUND Hwy 1 Campsites = 100 Feet

    • SALT POINT - SEA RANCH - GUALALA KILLING ZONE

  • SALT POINT LODGE = 75 - 90 Feet
  • SALT POINT STATE PARK = 1 - 200 Feet
  • SEA RANCH LODGE = 90 - 110 Feet
  • GUALALA BRIDGE = 20 Feet
  • GUALALA CAMPGROUND = 20 - 100 Feet
  • GREEN BRIDGE 4 miles up Gualala River = 20 Feet
  • GUALALA = 40 - 150 Feet

    • SALT POINT - SEA RANCH - GUALALA SAFE ZONE

  • SALT POINT LODGE Upper Meadow = 120 Feet
  • SALT POINT STATE PARK = 1 - 200 Feet
  • STEWART'S POINT STORE = 100 Feet
  • STEWART'S POINT POST OFFICE = 120 Feet
  • SEA RANCH LODGE = 90 - 110 Feet
  • GUALALA = 40 - 150 Feet

    • MENDOCINO COAST (Coming Soon)
    ELEVATONS. KILLING ZONES and SAFE ZONES -

    Here is Today's Weather, Today's Tide Chart, and Today's Nightime Star Chart. Road conditions and web cams can be viewed here: Web Cam on Mendocino's Main Street The Mendocino Board Shop Surf Report can be viewed here. The elevation of Mendocino is from 1 foot at Big River Beach to 150 feet at the historic hillside graveyard. Feel an earthquake? - You have 2 minutes to get 100 feet up (tsunami waves travel 600 mph) and the surge can reach 50 to 100 feet. The Mendocino Savings Bank parking lot is 120 feet above sea level. Here is the Tsunami Early Warning System. Enjoy the "Mom & Pop" business's linked to and in some cases reviewed below. Be alert - travel with LOVE in your heart and you will be safe.

    HUMBOLDT COAST (Coming Soon)
    ELEVATONS. KILLING ZONES and SAFE ZONES -

    DEL NORTE COAST (Coming Soon)
    ELEVATONS. KILLING ZONES and SAFE ZONES -

    WHAT TO LOOK FOR BEFORE A EARTHQUAKE and TSUNAMI HIT

    Often months before a earthquake and tsunami hit, people start having mass dreams of large waves and a feeling of impending doom. A week before the quake hits ants start coming out of their burrows and relocating to higher ground. Pets get skiddish and can run away from home. People can feel more irritable than usual and uptight - especially in banks where their security is tied to survival. Twenty minutes before the quake hits cattle and horses will break and run to the tops of hills. Divers off shore suddenly find all the fish disappear and the currents became really strong. Then it happens - an earthquake triggers an under sea tsunami. Some feel the quake - others do not. A sense of calm envelopes the air as the sea rushes out exposing beaches, bay bottoms and the ocean floor "way out". Then a wall of white foam is seen on the horizon as a "perfect wave" appears in the distance. RUN! For some who were not "tuned in" it will be too late. There will be three to five large surges and waves. Do not be fooled by the calm after the first tidal wave, surge and run-up. EACH WAVE and inland surge GETS STRONGER AND HIGHER than the preseding one. This can go on for hours. "The sea had just come in turning my hotel into a boat, stated one tourist." USGS Geologist Jim Berkland paints a picture of a "Sesmic Window" that occured in 2011.

    If a earthquake of at least 9.0 happens on the Cascadia Subduction Zone and generates a Tsunami of the size Japan felt in March of 2011 it would be devastating to harbors and bays of northern California with a northwestern facing entrance. A large forest of huge redwood trees "broke off" and sunk beneath the sea off Humboldt several hundred years ago. Northwest facing harbors include Cresecent City Harbor in Del Norte County, Humboldt Bay, Noyo Harbor at Fort Bragg, Big River estero at Mendocino, Albion Flats and up the Navarro River, the mouth of the Russian River on the Sonoma County coast, Salmon creek estero and Tomales Bay in Marin County. Bodega Bay may or may not be badly affected - but many of the beaches and creek esteros and watersheds will.

    Native American Legends of Giant Tsunami's and resultant ocean floods.

    A Pacific Northwest Makah Legend (as accounted by Swan in 1868) states "The water on its rise became very warm, and as it came up to the houses, those who had canoes put their effects into them, and floated off with the current, which set very strongly to the north. Some drifted one way, some another; and when the waters assumed their accustomed level, a portion of the tribe found themselves beyond Nootka, where their descendants now reside, and are known by the same name as the Makahs in Classett, or Kwenaitchechat. MANY OF THE CANOES CAME DOWN IN TREES and were destroyed, and numerous lives were lost. The water was four days regaining its accustomed level."

    Another interview accounted for by Deborah Carver (in Anderson, 1995) states, "A number of stories, including one from Washington state, tell of a huge earthquake occurring in the middle of the night, Deborah Carver said, in some cases after people in a doomed village have misbehaved. Elders tell the young that they must run for high ground. Those who heed their warning survive, although the 'flood' waters follow close behind them. THEY SPEND A COLD NIGHT IN THE HILLS, SURROUNDED BY ANIMALS WHO HAVE ALSO FLED THE FLOOD. In the morning they find that all traces of their village, and all neighboring coastal villages, have been completely washed away and no one else has survived."

    "Among the signs of danger, the elders warn, is long-lasting shaking moving from west to east, and sand that becomes so loose people walking on the beach sink into it."

    KASHAI POMO MEDICINE WOMAN'S VISION IN THE LATE 1890'S

    "The Vision of a Kashai Pomo Medicine Woman in the late 1890's saw the ocean along the coast "on fire and all the fish were dead along the shoreline". The Kashai Pomo Indian tribe lives in the mountains above Stewart's Point, California near Sea Ranch.

    TSUNAMI FOOTAGE
    of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA and JAPAN

  • CRESCENT CITY TSUNAMI of 2011

  • INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE OF JAPANESE TSUNAMI - THINK POINT ARENA, ALBION HARBOR, BIG RIVER BEACH at MENDOCINO, NOYO HARBOR, CRESCENT CITY HARBOR and numerous HOMES ON THE CLIFFS in between.

  • INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE OF JAPANESE TSUNAMI - THINK SAN FRANCISCO BAY or HUMBOLDT BAY in Eureka.

    • Tsunami waves generated by the Chilean earthquake kept coming for 20 hours. They were triggered when the seabed and water were raised by a massive amount of energy, created by movement along a 600-kilometer-long fault near Chile.

    The highest recorded tsunami caused by an offshore earthquake occurred off Ishigaki Island in the Ryukyu chain on April 24, 1771. According to the Guinness Book of Records. it tossed an 830-ton block of coral more than 1½ miles inland and may have been as high as 279 feet.

    In February 2010, the Pacific Coast of Japan was struck by a small tsunami generated by a powerful earthquake 17,000 kilometers—half a world away— in Chile that reached Japan the day after the earthquake occurred. Perhaps most remarkably the tsunami traveled 20 kilometers up a river that emptied into Sendai Bay. Tsunami expert Hitoshi Tanaka of Tohuku University told the Yomiuri Shimbun, “In the case of a gently inclining river, a tsunami can travel upriver for long distances and cause flood damage inland. Residents living near rivers have to be careful.”

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