"A tsunami is not what's going to keep me up at night worrying — it's going to be more of the earthquake threat itself," said Tony Gioiello, chief harbor engineer at the Port of Los Angeles.
Tsunami inundation maps put forth by the state show the ports at risk of flooding, but a study commissioned by the ports found little risk that a tsunami would push water above the level of the piers. David Dykstra, a coastal scientist who worked on the study, said in any tsunami scenario, he would not expect to see a water level fluctuation at the ports of much more than 5 feet.
