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    The tsunami that battered Santa Cruz highlights the threat facing California’s coast

    When harbor officials warned Kenneth Stagnaro of a tsunami heading from Tonga for the Santa Cruz Harbor last weekend, he decided to take his two boats out to sea. Out there, Stagnaro, who runs a whale watching and charter fishing business, felt he could ride out the worst of the tsunami. It’s what he and dozens of other large boat owners did in 2011 when a violent tsunami from a magnitude-9 ...
    by Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times Jan 23, 2022 5 minutes

    When harbor officials warned Kenneth Stagnaro of a tsunami heading from Tonga for the Santa Cruz Harbor last weekend, he decided to take his two boats out to sea.

    Out there, Stagnaro, who runs a whale watching and charter fishing business, felt he could ride out the worst of the tsunami.

    It’s what he and dozens of other large boat owners did in 2011 when a violent tsunami from a magnitude-9 earthquake in Japan capsized boats in the harbor and shredded whole docks, pulling them into the ocean, causing about $20 million in damage, and a total of $100 million in damage to harbors along California’s coast.

    In the end, the Jan. 15 tsunami that hit the California coast was smaller and less damaging. But it still caused an estimated $6 million in damage to Santa

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