The nuclear plant sited near a popular Pacific Ocean beach might melt down the way the Fukushima plant did after the March 2011 tsunami in Japan, activists fear.
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The river ultimately ends in the Pacific Ocean at Long Beach, California.
Outside my open French doors, a 15-foot grass margin led to the edge of a cliff, 160 feet below which the Pacific Ocean pounded the beach.
It was a flame that crossed the Pacific, landing upon beach upon beach, climbing Iwo Jima, it was a flame that landed at Normandy, it was a flame that shone brightly December 1944 at Bastogne.
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Called Villa Rockledge, the property is on a cliff overlooking the Pacific, with a private beach below.
Lana Smith, 25, was staying in a beach hostel on the Pacific island when the tsunami hit on Tuesday.
The couple said they were headed to Playa Ventura, a beach town on the Pacific coast, to spend the weekend there.
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On the beach of an island in the Pacific, an island with black sand, hardened black lava, and nothing green growing but cactus, a British mariner with a knife in his hand was crouching before a giant tortoise.
The trail begins with a wicked climb up 650 steps carved into a hillside and ends a brutal (and lovely) seven miles later (and after a 2, 200-foot climb and descent) on the other side of Mount Tamalpais, at the tiny town of Stinson Beach on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
In the west of the city, Outer Sunset and Outer Richmond have great access to Ocean Beach, a wide sandy expanse on the Pacific Ocean.
Instead of looking to the bathroom, the city of Huntington Beach is looking to its most popular attraction, the Pacific Ocean.
Extending about a mile and a half along the Pacific Coast Highway, the tony enclave is comprised of 70 lots crammed with beach houses belonging to billionaires like David Geffen, Haim Saban, Eli Broad, Paul Allen and Gerald Schwartz.
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Not to mention that, from downtown LA, one is only about 8 miles from Hollywood, 10 miles from Beverly Hills, and 15 miles due West to the Pacific Ocean and its assortment of beaches and tourist traps in Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, and the like.
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The historic property, arranged around a central lawn and pool area overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is just two blocks from the Carmel town centre and close to Pebble Beach and Monterey Bay.
Carbon Beach, comprised of about 70 lots, stretches slightly less than a mile and a half along Pacific Coast Highway.
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The tsunami that wrecked northern Japanese fishing villages and small cities also travelled across the Pacific and hit the Hawaiian islands, causing tens of millions of dollars worth of damage to boats, docks, beach homes and led to the closing of the famous Kona Village Resort, a picturesque minimalist string of high-end bungalows on the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.
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