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New Delhi: A massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 struck Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula early on Wednesday. The earthquake generated a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13 feet). The quake damaging buildings, and prompting evacuation warnings in the area several areas in Japan and the United States. “Today’s earthquake was serious and the strongest in decades of tremors,” Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app, adding that a kindergarten was damaged due to strong tremors. It is important to note that the first tsunami wave hit the coastal area of Severo-Kurilsk, the main settlement on Russia’s Kuril Islands in the Pacific, according to the local governor, Valery Limarenko. A tsunami with a height of 3-4 metres (10-13 feet) was also recorded in parts of Kamchatka.
In the recent update, it has been reported that Russian authorities have evacuated the town of Severo-Kurilsk.
The US National Weather Service has warned people from venturing along the coast looking for tsunami waves. “This will NOT be a single wave. Do NOT try to go to the coast to take photos.”
The US embassy in Port Moresby has issued a tsunami alert for Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, warning of “potential dangerous coastal flooding and/or strong and unusual currents dangerous to those in or very near the water”.
First tsunami waves hit US West Coast: The first tsunami waves were detected in Monterey, California at 12:48am local time (05:48 GMT), according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
State of emergency declared in Russia’s Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy: Authorities in the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, in the country’s Far East, say that all services have been put on high alert following the earthquake.
Pacific coastal areas on high alert: Sue Dawson, a professor of hazard geoscience at the University of Dundee in Scotland, says the position of the quake off the coast in Russia “makes the entire Pacific at risk”.
Tsunami waves arrive in San Francisco and Seattle: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data indicates that the first waves hit San Francisco, in the US state of California, at 1:12am local time (08:12 GMT).
Russia Earthquake Live Updates: The Department of Transportation in Hawaii says all flights to and from Kahului Airport, the main airport in Maui, have been cancelled. In a social media post, the department said passengers have been sheltering in the terminal. “In the morning, those sheltering will be re-screened prior to departures,” it added.
Russia Tsunami Live Updates: Tsunami waves that crashed into the Russian Pacific town of Severo-Kurilsk exceeded three metres (9.8ft) in height, and the most powerful was as big as five metres (16.4ft), Russia’s Ria Novosti news agency reports, citing emergency services
Russia Earthquake Live Updates: Hawaii’s Governor Josh Green has said it is too early to tell how big the tsunami waves reaching Hawaii will be.
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