{"id":103893,"date":"2025-07-30T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103893\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:39:08","slug":"tsunami-alerts-issued-for-us-japan-philippines-after-massive-earthquake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103893\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami alerts issued for US, Japan, Philippines after massive earthquake | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"post-label__text\">DEVELOPING STORY<\/strong>DEVELOPING STORY, <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Magnitude 8.7 quake off Russia\u2019s east coast prompts warnings, evacuations in dozens of countries.<\/p>\n<p>Tsunami waves have hit parts of Russia and Japan after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2025\/7\/30\/live-tsunami-warning-after-magnitude-8-6-earthquake-off-russian-east-coast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">massive earthquake<\/a> off the Russian coast, with alerts issued for dozens of other countries, including the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Waves of up to 4 metres high (13 feet) struck Russia\u2019s far-eastern Kamchatka region early on Wednesday, said Sergei Lebedev, the regional minister for emergency situations, following the 8.8-magnitude quake, one of the largest on record.<\/p>\n<p>Severo-Kurilsk, a seaport town in the Sakhalin region, was flooded, forcing the evacuation of its 2,000 residents, Russia\u2019s Ministry of Emergencies and Disaster Relief said.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on Russian social media appeared to show buildings in the town submerged in water.<\/p>\n<p>Potentially hazardous waves were expected in parts of the US, much of coastal Latin America and numerous Asian and Pacific island states later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The US Tsunami Warning Centers said waves as high as 3 metres (9.8 ft) could hit Ecuador, Hawaii and Russia, while waves of 1 to 3 metres (3.3-9.8 ft) were possible in Chile, Costa Rica and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The US National Weather Service issued tsunami \u201cwarnings\u201d for the state of Hawaii, Alaska\u2019s Aleutian Islands and parts of California, as well as lower-level tsunami advisories for Oregon, with waves expected to arrive from the late afternoon on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A serious tsunami watch is in place for the entire US West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Honolulu Department of Emergency Management in Hawaii urged the evacuation of residents in some coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake Action! Destructive tsunami waves expected,\u201d the agency said on X.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they expected the first waves to arrive at 7:10pm local time on Tuesday (05:00 GMT, Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii\u2019s Department of Transportation said that commercial flights had been suspended at the Hilo international airport to facilitate evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Tsunamis can strike repeatedly\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdpc86j900023b6omx98fp76@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">US President Donald Trump urged residents in Hawaii, Alaska, and along the Pacific Coast to pay attention to tsunami-related advisories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdpc86j900023b6omx98fp76@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\u201cSTAY STRONG AND STAY SAFE!\u201d Trump said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese authorities said they expected waves as high as 3 metres (9.8 ft) to hit some coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople in coastal areas or along rivers should immediately evacuate to safe places such as high ground or evacuation buildings,\u201d the Japan Meteorological Agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTsunamis can strike repeatedly. Do not leave the safe location until the warning is lifted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Footage posted on social media showed residents of some Japanese coastal communities moving to higher ground.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba urged the public to evacuate from affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese media reported the arrival of the first waves, measuring about 30cm (1 ft) high, on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Fire and Disaster Management Agency did not immediately report any damage or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Alerts were also issued for the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the 8.8-magnitude quake, one of the biggest on record, struck 136km (85 miles) east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia\u2019s far east.<\/p>\n<p>The USGS revised the intensity of the quake up from an earlier estimate of 8.0.<\/p>\n<p>Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov said in a video posted on Telegram that the quake was the \u201cstrongest in decades\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The regional health minister, Oleg Melnikov, told Russia\u2019s state-run TASS news agency that several people had been injured in the quake, but none of them seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent quakes of magnitude 6.9 and 6.3 were recorded 147km (91 miles) and 131km (81 miles) southeast of Petropavlovsk and Vilyuchinsk, respectively, in Russia\u2019s far east, according to the USGS.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Weis, a tsunami expert at Virginia Tech, said the tsunamis could potentially do serious damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is correct to be worried about this one,\u201d Weis told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree metres is pretty destructive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Magnitude 8.7 quake off Russia\u2019s east coast prompts warnings, evacuations in dozens of countries. 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