In 2011, a tsunami hit California after a large earthquake in Japan. More than 100 boats in Santa Cruz were damaged. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggered a massive wave that traveled 5,000 miles across the ocean, causing damage up and down the West Coast as far south as San Diego.

Chile is now the only South American country that still has tsunami warnings on Thursday – July 31. While others lifted their re

The threat of massive waves has largely passed in Japan, the US and Russia. Countries along South America's Pacific coast, meanwhile, issued tsunami warnings and called for people to evacuate their homes.