Russia quake, tsunami live updates: While Hawaii and Japan have downgraded their tsunami warnings, Chile has upgraded it to the highest level across most of its Pacific Coast, ordering evacuations. Besides, the advisory along the coast in California has been cancelled. A warning for waves as high as 4 metres persists in French Polynesia, a country in the South Pacific, comprising of over a 100 islands.
The alerts were triggered by a powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
In Hawaii, the areas where people were evacuated from has now been declared safe for return. One person died in Japan as tsunami waves measured 1.3 m hit the shore, reportedJapan Times. However, the waves were weaker than feared, the publication said.
Tsunami waves measuring four feet (1.2 metres) were observed in Hawaii, as remote regions of California also prepared for potential impact following a major earthquake in Russia’s Far East that prompted tsunami warnings across the Pacific.
Near the earthquake’s epicentre in Russia, waves reportedly reached up to 4 meters, flooding a town of around 2,400 residents in the Northern Kuril Islands, according to media reports. However, no injuries or fatalities have been reported so far.
What is a Tsunami?
Tsunamis are massive ocean waves triggered by sudden vertical movements of the seafloor, typically caused by shallow faults slipping during powerful earthquakes or by the movement of large underwater landslides.
As these waves travel into shallower waters near coastlines, they increase in height, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Russia Earthquake, Tsunami LIVE Updates: An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 – one of the world’s strongest-struck Russia’s far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula early on Wednesday, generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13 feet), damaging buildings, and prompting evacuation warnings in the area several areas in Japan and the United States. “Today’s earthquake was serious and the strongest in decades of tremors,” Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app, adding that a kindergarten was damaged due to strong tremors.
The first tsunami wave hit the coastal area of Severo-Kurilsk, the main settlement on Russia’s Kuril Islands in the Pacific, according to the local governor, Valery Limarenko. A tsunami with a height of 3-4 metres (10-13 feet) was also recorded in parts of Kamchatka.
A tsunami wave of about 30 centimetres (about 1 foot) also reached Nemuro on the eastern coast of Hokkaido, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Trenours also set off a tsunami in the northern Pacific region and prompted warnings for coastal areas of Alaska, Hawaii, Chile, the Solomon Islands and south toward New Zealand. Waves of more than 3 meters (yards) were possible along some coastal areas of Ecuador.
The quake was about 119 kilometers (74 miles) away from the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a population of 180,000, on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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