Russian officials reported on Wednesday (30, local time) that a Tsunami between 3 and 4 meters reached part of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of the country.
In Japan, the first wave of registered tsunami was 30 centimeters in the Hokkaido region in the north of the country, according to the broadcaster NHK, but there is a possibility of larger waves.
The waves were the result of a Richter 8.7 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Kamchatka, which generated alerts and warnings to evacuate coastal areas in Russia, Japan and the United States.
It is the largest earthquake in magnitude in the world since it recorded in 2011 in northeastern Japan (which was 9.0–9.1 on the Richter scale), whose tsunami caused the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
“Today’s earthquake was serious and the strongest in decades of tremors,” said Kamchatka governor Vladimir Solodov, in a video posted on social networks, according to Reuters agency.
Buildings were damaged, including a childhood garden, but no information on victims has yet been released.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a wave alert up to 3 meters and evacuation orders for some areas.
The US tsunami warning system also issued an alert for the next few hours to the back of Alaska and Hawaii, a state whose government ordered evacuation in some coastal areas.
The earthquake occurred at 8:25 am (Japanese local time; 20:25 in Brasilia), to an indeterminate depth.
