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A powerful magnitude-7.0 offshore earthquake in Northern California led to a brief tsunami warning Thursday morning for about 5 million people on the West Coast. A tsunami, a word that comes from the ...

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A tsunami, a word that comes from the Japanese characters for harbor and wave, is a series of extremely long waves caused by the sudden displacement of the ocean, according to the National Weather ...