[Update: Wed., July 30, 2025, 3:30pm] The tsunami advisory for Santa Barbara County triggered by yesterday's 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has been canceled, the county announced Wednesday afternoon . However, the county cautions that "rogue, higher-than-normal waves and strong currents may continue throughout coastal areas for several hours or days." State, county, and Santa Barbara and Carpinteria city beaches are now open, but Vandenberg Space Force Base beaches will remain closed for the rest of the day. According to the National Weather Service, tsunami waves of 1.5 feet were observed in Santa Barbara shortly after 7 a.m. on Wednesday.
[Update: Wed., July 30, 2025, 9am] As of Wednesday morning, the tsunami advisory remained in place from Rincon Point to Humboldt and Del Norte county lines, with reports of waves as high as four feet arriving to Crescent City, not far from the Oregon border. In Santa Barbara, Harbormaster Mike Wiltshire said no earthquake-generated waves were evident. "As there is still a tsunami advisory in place, we are advising that people stay out of the water due to possible elevated currents," he warned.
The highest waves in the Eastern Pacific were reported in Hawai'i — to nearly six-footers. Damage and injury were not evident in the U.S., according to media reports, but strong wave action injured a few people and damaged buildings and ships in the islands immediately south of Kamchatka — the Kuril Islands.