A tsunami advisory was issued for all of the California coast after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia.<\/p>\n
According to the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center, the advisory was in effect for the entire West Coast, including Washington and Oregon. The advisory also includes a portion of British Columbia, Alaska\u2019s Aleutian Islands and areas of south and southeast Alaska. <\/p>\n
A tsunami advisory is the middle level of the warning center\u2019s three-tier alert system: watch, advisory and warning. A tsunami advisory means that strong currents and dangerous waves are expected and that people should stay off of beaches and out of the ocean.<\/p>\n
The center had initially issued a lower-tier \u2018tsunami watch\u2019 alert for the West Coast of America earlier Tuesday afternoon. The upgraded alert was sent out around 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
A more severe tsunami warning was in effect for the western section of Alaska\u2019s Aleutian Islands, where people were being told to immediately evacuate designated tsunami hazard zones. A warning was also in place for the entire state of Hawaii, where all residents were urged to head away from the coastline. <\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s Weather Authority has issued an evacuation order for people living on the Pacific Coast, warning that waves of up to 10 feet could strike the coastline.<\/p>\n
The earthquake struck at a depth of 46 miles at 9:25 a.m. Wednesday in local Russian time \u2014 which is 4:25 p.m. Tuesday PST. <\/p>\n
The size of any waves that may strike California is currently unknown. Should a tsunami materialize, it would hit Fort Bragg in Mendocino County at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday, Crescent City in Del Norte County at 11:55 p.m. <\/p>\n
Then, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, potential waves would reach Monterey at 12:15 a.m., San Francisco at 12:40 a.m. Wednesday, the Los Angeles harbor at 1:05 a.m., Newport Beach at 1:10 a.m., and Oceanside and La Jolla at 1:15 a.m.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula is a hot spot for earthquakes. Earlier this month, the region was rattled by five powerful quakes \u2014 the largest with a magnitude of 7.4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tsunami advisory was issued for all of the California coast after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[9761,1582,276,67002,9704,67003,2961,224,2444,5337,17470,67004,33070,18010,25080,67000,2750,67001,67005,3427],"class_list":{"0":"post-103647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-a-m","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-coast","12":"tag-effect","13":"tag-fort-bragg","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-times","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-low-level","19":"tag-monterey","20":"tag-newport-beach","21":"tag-oceanside","22":"tag-p-m-tuesday","23":"tag-pdt-jul-29crescent-city","24":"tag-san-francisco","25":"tag-tsunami-watch","26":"tag-warning-center","27":"tag-wave"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114939825085152449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}