The National Weather Service issued high surf advisories Thursday morning for large portions Northern California, with waves up to 30 feet high expected to hit portions of the coast until Sunday.

The quake occurred on the sparsely populated northern coast of California in a seismically complex area known as the Mendocino Triple Junction. It is where three tectonic plates meet and the Northwest ...

according to the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay. The hiker and a companion had wandered off the remote 53-mile hiking path that follows the northern California coastline of redwoods and ...