Lucile M. Jones Kevin H. Miller Keith A. Porter Anne Wein Rick I. Wilson Bohyun Bahng Aggeliki Barberopoulou Jose C. Borrero Deborah M. Brosnan John T. Bwarie Eric L. Geist Laurie A. Johnson Stephen H. Kirby William R. Knight Kate Long Patrick Lynett Carl E. Mortensen Dmitry J. Nicolsky Suzanne C. Perry Geoffrey S. Plumlee Charles R. Real Kenneth Ryan Elena Suleimani Hong Kie Thio Vasily V. Titov Paul M. Whitmore Nathan J. Wood Stephanie L. Ross 2013 On March 11, 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastated Japan with a disaster of unfathomable proportions. Five thousand miles away, the waves from Tohoku caused $50 to 100 million in damages in California. Although this pales in comparison to the loss of lives and property in Japan, the U.S. Government must ask whether California, and the national economy, will someday face worse consequences from other distant-source tsunamis. Unfortunately, the answer is “yes.” application/pdf 10.3133/fs20133081 en U.S. Geological Survey The SAFRR tsunami scenario: improving resilience for California reports