A group of geologists recently completed fieldwork within Drakes Estero as part of a federally funded project that will comb the coastline from Cape Mendocino to the border of Mexico for sedimentary evidence of prehistoric tsunamis.
While a substantial amount of paleo-tsunami research has been conducted around Humboldt County and the Pacific Northwest because of the Cascadian subduction zone, the more southern and populated sections of the California coast have not been examined as carefully.…