Several countries overlooking the Pacific Ocean, including Russia, Japan, the United States, Canada, the Philippines, and Indonesia, as well as countries in Central and South America, issued warnings of strong tsunami waves after an underwater earthquake on Tuesday evening, about 136 kilometers southeast of Kamchatka, a remote peninsula in the far east of Russia. American scientists measured the earthquake of 8.8 degrees, while the Russian Academy of Sciences estimated its power at 8.7 degrees, as it made it clear that it was the most powerful earthquake since 1952, and it was considered among the ten strongest earthquakes registered in the world, according to the American Institute of Geophysics.
The earthquake center is almost the same as the 1952 earthquake center, which has a power of 9 degrees, and caused a destroyed tsunami in the Pacific region, according to the American Center.
The Russian Peninsula, which separates the Okhtuksk Sea from the Pacific Ocean, is one of the most vulnerable areas of earthquakes in the world, “according to the American Geological Survey.
Countries overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the north and south of the American continent issued warnings to stay away from the beaches, including the United States, Mexico and Ecuador.
Officials said that the Russian authorities canceled warnings of the possibility of a tsunami in the Camchatka Peninsula, the island of Sakhlin and the town of Severo Corelilsk in the Korel Islands after a strong earthquake that shook the area on Wednesday.
The Russian Ministry of Emergency at Kamchatka warned that scientists expect the consequences of up to 7.5 degrees on the Richter scale. She said that there is a possibility of a tsunami in the Bay of Affacha, where the regional capital is Petrovavlovsk-Kamcatsky.
The Kremlin stated that the regional authorities in Kamchatka were well prepared for the earthquake. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed out that time warnings were issued and the population was quickly evacuated from dangerous areas. He added that the buildings proved their resistance to earthquakes.
For its part, Japan reduced its last remaining warnings from the tsunami, which was issued to the north of the country. Tsunami’s indicative notes are still standing for the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
Experts expect that the flood waves resulting from the strong earthquake that struck the Russian peninsula will reach the Pacific countries in the coming hours.
Charlotte Kraftchk, from the Hemhols Center for Earth Sciences in Germany on Wednesday, told German News Agency that it usually takes a few hours to arrive in the coast. According to Kraftchk, flood waves hit about one meter high, the coast of Japan overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Hawaii. However, the expert warned that even if the flood waves became relatively small during the next few hours, this does not mean that the worst has ended.
While local media reported that several people were injured in the far east of Russia, no country has reported that deaths were killed until ten in the morning. On Wednesday, the Japanese Meteorological Agency reduced the warning level from a tsunami in a large part of the country, but it kept it in the north. The agency said on its website that the warning was reduced in the Eibaraki area in central Japan, reaching the Wakayama region in the south, to the level of caution.
The earthquake struck a depth of 20.7 km, 126 km from Kamchatka, the capital of the region in the far east of the Russian. The Russian Emergency Ministry said that successive tsunami had struck Tusnamisifero-Clevollek in the north of the Russian archipelago, and the water was flooded. The authorities declared a state of emergency in the area. A local media stated that a high wave was between three and four meters in Elizovsky, Camchatka. The mayor of the region said that all residents were evacuated to a safe area.
One of the residents said in a video published by the public channel “Zevizda” that “the fourth tsunami wave is now hit. The wave is strong and overwhelms everything; The whole beach is immersed. The water has come again and you will come back now. The port and factories based on the coast were completely destroyed. ”
“The walls were shaken,” said a woman from Elizovsky. Fortunately, we had a bag with water and clothes near the door, we carried it and fled. ” She added, as quoted by the French Press Agency: “This is the first time that an earthquake was tested with this power. I was crying. It was very scary. ” Several people in Russia were injured as a result of the earthquake, according to the official media, but their injuries are not dangerous.
This is the most powerful earthquake since 1952 in the Kamchatka region, according to the local earthquake monitoring devices, which warned of tremors that may reach a power of 7.5 degrees. A live broadcast of Japanese television showed people who leave a car or a walk, to move to heights, especially on the northern island of Hokkaido.
The Japanese Meteorological Agency said that a 1.30 -meter tsunami hit a port in the Miyaghi region in the north of the country. The Eina Beach in the Chiba area near Tokyo, a security collar was imposed in the place, and a paramedic told reporters of the French Press Agency that he prohibited access to the beach until further notice. Official TV is covering directly. One of the broadcasters called on the residents to evacuate the coastal areas by saying: “Now leave to survive your souls.”
The operating company of the Fukushima nuclear station in northern Japan said it had postponed its employees. A strong earthquake witnessed by Japan in March 2011, followed by a violent tsunami that invaded the station and damaged its reactors. Some railways were stopped. There were no injuries or damage in Japan until mid -Wednesday.
China also issued a tsunami warning to several coastal areas, but it returned and raised it. As for the Philippines, it urged its eastern coast residents to move to internal areas, and advised the fishermen who are in the sea to stay on the high seas away from the beach.
In Hawaii, the alarm level was reduced from tsunami to caution. The mayor of Honolulu Rick Blangradardi had earlier called on residents and thousands of visitors to take shelter on the upper floors of the buildings or on the highlands. The ruler Josh Green said: “People should never remain near the beach or risk their lives to see the tsunami. This is not a normal wave, the tsunami is killed. ”
Tsunami warnings were sent via California, according to correspondents of the French Press Agency. There were 6 apostasy tremors in the area, including one with a power of 6.9 degrees and another with a power of 6.3 degrees.
Chile raised the tsunami warning level to the highest level in most of its coastal areas overlooking the ocean. The National Emergency Authority of Chile said it was evacuating hundreds of people from coastal areas. The Ministry of Education canceled the study in most coastal areas.
The American Early Warning Center warned of the tsunami of the possibility of registration of waves, which may increase more than three meters along the coast of Ecuador and northwest of the Hawaiian Islands and Russia. He added that waves are between one meter and three meters height in some coasts of Chile, Costa Rica, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Japan and some other islands in the Pacific Ocean. Paulinisia said it is afraid that the tsunami height will reach four meters in the Marquise Archipelago.
Also, waves with a height of a meter in Australia, Colombia, Mexico, New Zealand, Tonga and Taiwan may also be recorded. On Wednesday, Colombia ordered the population to evacuate the coastal areas in two provinces overlooking the Pacific Ocean, due to a warning of the possibility of a tsunami. The National Disaster Risk Management Authority explained via X: “A warning from Tsunami in Choko and Narinho. We recommend the evacuation of the beaches and coastal areas as a precaution in these two regions.
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