The quake struck not long before 11 a.m. off the coast of Humboldt County ... See below for a map of tsunami risk by county, and a list of the U.S. counties at greatest risk from such a disaster.

South of Fourth Street and east of Broadway are out of the tsunami zone for Eureka. The coast of Humboldt County is in the tsunami zone. It’s critical for residents to know their zone.

Next time, he advised people in Old Town’s inundation zone to walk a couple ... is the most up-to-date current map for tsunami inundation in Humboldt County,” he said. These most current ...

The magnitude 7 quake Dec. 5 off the Humboldt County coast—which prompted a tsunami warning affecting millions in Northern California—was a blaring reminder of that.