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HUGE 8.8 Quake Hits Russia Peninsula-Tsunami Alerts To Japan,New Zealand & US
Tsunami Alerts From Japan to US After Powerful 8.8 Earthquake Sparks WARNINGS Across Pacific -One of The Strongest EVER Recorded
Magnitude 8.8 quake hit near Russias Kamchatka peninsula provoking warnings as far away as New Zealand and California
The Guardian 30 JUL 2025
A tsunami warning is displayed on a television in Yokohama, near Tokyo, after Japan issued alerts following a strong earthquakes off the Kamchatka Peninsula
A photo showing tsunami flooding on Russias Kamchatka Peninsula
There are tsunami warnings in Japan with high waves pictured
A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake has triggered a series of tsunami warnings and evacuation orders stretching across Japan, the US west coast and parts of the Pacific, after the shallow quake hit near Russias Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, with reports of waves up to four metres high in the remote region.
The earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, struck at a depth of 19.3km 12 miles and was centred 126km 80 miles southeast of Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky, a city along Russias Avacha Bay, the US Geological Survey said.
A tsunami with a height of 3 to 4 metres was recorded in parts of Kamchatka, Sergei Lebedev, regional minister for emergency situations said, with several injured.
Kamchatka governor Vladimir Solodov described the quake in a post on Telegram as serious and the strongest in decades of tremors. A kindergarten in the area had also been damaged, he said.
The US Tsunami Warning System issued a warning of hazardous tsunami waves within the next three hours along some coasts of Russia, Japan, Alaska and Hawaii. A tsunami watch was also in effect for the US island territory of Guam and Micronesia.
The US Tsunami Warning Center said waves as high as 3 metres could also hit Ecuador, while sirens blared in Hawaii warning people to leave coastal areas.
In Japan, much of the countrys eastern seaboard devastated by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in 2011 was ordered to evacuate. Officials said more than 900,000 residents in 133 municipalities along Japans Pacific coast were under evacuation orders.
Those near the coast should evacuate immediately to higher ground or safe buildings in the areas covered by the tsunami warning from Hokkaido to Wakayama Prefecture hundreds of kilometres to the south,? said Japans chief cabinet secretary, Yoshimasa Hayashi, Please be aware that after the initial wave, second and third waves of tsunamis can be even higher.
The Japan Weather Agency upgraded its warning, saying it expected tsunami waves of up to 3m, but only waves of 40cm have been recorded so far.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said a tsunami as high as 40cm had been detected in 16 locations as the waves moved south along the Pacific coast from Hokkaido to just northeast of Tokyo. Officials urged caution, saying that bigger waves could come later.
Workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant, which went into meltdown after being hit by the 2011 tsunami, have been evacuated, although no abnormalities have been observed at the site.
Wednesdays quake struck about 250km 160 miles away from Hokkaido, Japans northernmost of the countrys four big islands, and was felt only slightly, according to Japans NHK television.
Factory workers and residents in Japans northern Hokkaido evacuated to a hill overlooking the ocean, footage from broadcaster TBS showed.
Please evacuate quickly. If you can move quickly to higher ground and away from the coast, a newscaster on Japanese public broadcaster NHK said.
Kamchatka and Russias Far East sit on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a geologically active region that is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Japan, also part of the active seismic zone, is one of the worlds most quake prone countries.
Earlier in July, five powerful quakes the largest with a magnitude of 7.4 struck in the sea near Kamchatka. The largest quake was at a depth of 20km and was 144km 89 miles east of the city of Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky, which has a population of 180,000.
On 4 November 1952, a magnitude 9.0 quake in Kamchatka caused damage but no reported deaths despite setting off 9.1m 30 foot waves in Hawaii.
Tsunami waves hit Hawaii as massive earthquake off Russia triggered evacuations across Pacific
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UPDATE:
Frightening Scenes as Tsunami Waves FINALLY Hit Japan, Russia And Hawaii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukg6KebBCZ4
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