That’s earthquake country because a bunch of geologically significant features meet just off shore. The village of Samoa is located on a strip of land on the ocean side of Humboldt Bay across from Eureka. The tallest land around there is a couple of sand dunes, about 20 feet high. Two decades ago, they were required to complete a government mandated Tsunami plan. The finished plan read something along the line of, “in event of Tsunami, run! run!”
“Pray” would probably have gotten them in trouble with the ACLU.
Interesting, little 1.9 quake a few hours later in Soledad, 300+ miles south, but also on the San Andreas fault. And another 1.2 on the south end of the fault just now. Looks like there’s some readjusting going on.
My first BIG quake was the Tehachapi shaker of 1952. So I moved to Humboldt County in 1954 and have been Rock & Rollin ever since. The 6.9 Sunday night was… ummm. .interesting? The lights didn’t even flicker and no reports of power outages anywhere…
“Surf” is more like it