For weather, tide, and wave information at Ocean Beach: Ocean Beach United States Surf Forecast and Surf Reports from Surf-forecast.com.

San Francisco Bight Coastal Processes Study.

The USGS is conducting a study that documents and analyzes the processes that control the sand transport and sedimentation patterns of Ocean Beach, a National Park site within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. This area encompasses a complicated coastal setting that is impacted by the tidal influence of San Francisco Bay, as well as the southwest and northwest Pacific swell. High-energy conditions at this site have restricted comprehensive field surveys in the past, but recent innovations in field techniques now make it possible to perform detailed analysis of the physical processes operating on high energy coastlines, such as Ocean Beach.

Ocean Beach USGS webcam.

Wandering around also brought me to this USGS page on the 1700 Cascadia subduction zone earthquake and tsunami, The Orphan Tsunami of 1700—Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America.

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