inundation

On the landslide-plagued Palos Verdes Peninsula, Hunter said she hoped for a gentle weekend rain, not an inundation that would cause the ground to slip farther and her community’s problems to escalate once again.

Tsunami hazard zones represent the maximum inundation area in a number of extreme yet realistic scenarios, according to the California Geological Survey.

Tsunami hazard zones represent the maximum inundation area in a number of extreme yet realistic scenarios, the California Geological Survey says.

A warning means "that a tsunami with significant inundation is possible or is already according," according to NWS, which had urged those in affected areas to "move inland to higher ground."

The inundation decimated farmland already ravaged by a series of storms.