A fishing village in far Northern California remained under a tsunami warning Wednesday morning, even as officials reduced the warning to an advisory for an area directly to the south, along the Humboldt County coast. Crescent City, a community of 6,700 people that is 25 miles south of the Oregon border, sounded warning sirens Tuesday evening, before the first waves arrived not long after midnight. Waves reached a peak of four feet in Crescent City before dawn on Wednesday. … Crescent City, which is the county seat of Del Norte County, is unusually prone to tsunamis, with dozens striking over the past century. The reason is unusual geology: Just off the coast, an underwater ridge called the Mendocino Fracture Zone “funnels tsunamis into deeper water where they pick up speed before they hit Crescent City,” according to city literature.

Other California tsunami news:

• Los Angeles Times: Modest tsunami waves arrive on California coast, no damage reported so far
• San Francisco Chronicle: Tsunami updates: 4-foot waves could hit California coast; Hawaii escapes major damage
• The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.): Did the tsunami hit California? Portions of coast remain under warnings Wednesday