About two million people in Japan They received orders to leave their homes or abandon coastal areas due to the risk of tsunamis caused by the 8.8 degrees of magnitude that reached on Wednesday (30, local time) the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia.
The earthquake has been the most powerful since 1952 in Kamchatka, one of the areas of the largest volcanic activity on the planet, according to the Russian unified geophysical service on its Telegram channel, and the sixth most intense recorded in the world since 2011.
The oceanic and atmospheric national administration (NOAA) of the USA He issued a Tsunami warning to Hawaii and parts of Alaska, shortly after the episode, while put the rest of the west coast of the country under warning.
The government office, which encompasses the National Meteorology Service (NWS), raised Tsunami’s warning to its highest level to the entire state of Hawaii, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, as well as to Alaska’s western tip. In addition, the entity issued a tsunami alert to the entire west coast of the United States and Canada.
The first waves of Tsunami reached the back of Hawaii at 8:25 am on Wednesday (local time, 3:25 am Brasília), according to the US Tsunamis Alert System page, managed by the Ocean and Atmospheric National Administration (NOAA). According to the source, a wave of up to 1.74 meters in Kahului, Maui has already been recorded and over 1.5 meters in hilum.
The Tsunamis Alert Center of the Mexico (CAT) released an alert bulletin on Tuesday night (29, local time) to the Pacific coast. On the warning, the CAT reported that it expected the arrival of waves with heights below 20 centimeters from 2am on Wednesday (5am from Brasilia).
In addition, the Navy recommended “keeping the population away from the beaches” until the cancellation of the alert and warned that “strong currents are expected at the entrance of the ports.”
South and Central America countries issue alerts
The National Tsunamis Alert Center of the Ecuador On Tuesday, he announced a warning about the “high probability” of a tsunami affecting the Galapagos Islands after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale on the Kamchatka peninsula in the east of Russia.
For the coast of the continental territory of Ecuador, the National Tsunamis Center, linked to the Oceanographic and Hydrographic Institute of the Ecuadorian Navy, determined a state of attention. If a tsunami reaches the Ecuadorian coast, it is estimated to do so around 10am of Galapagos (12h of Brasilia) and 11am from the continental territory (13h of Brasilia). Tsunami’s warning recommends the suspension of coastal sea activities, the evacuation of beaches and attention to the instructions of the authorities.
Peru and Colombia on alert for possible tsunami
The direction of hydrography and navigation of the Peru He has launched a tsunami alert to the entire coast of the South American country due to the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale that occurred on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Peruvian authority issued this alert after several evaluations of the seismic event that occurred on the other side of the Pacific, without specifying the approximate hours when waves can reach the country.
The Government of Colombia In the early hours of Wednesday, a warning from Tsunami on the country’s coast after the earthquake in Russia was also issued. The warning was made by the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) based on information from the Colombian maritime authority (Dimar).
“ATTENTION. After the magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Kamchatka, Russia, according to Dimar, strong currents and tsunami waves on the Colombian importing coast are foreseen,” UNGRD said on its X-network account.
In Central America, at least one person died and two others were seriously injured in the Guatemala Due to a series of seismic shaking that began with a 5.8 magnitude tremor on the Richter scale on the border with El Salvador.
According to the National Institute of Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology of Guatemala (Insivumeh), there were at least 14 replicas with magnitudes from 3.1 to 5.7. The agency said it also evaluates the origin of the seismos, although initially intended for the failure of Jalpatagua that crosses part of the Pacific coast.
