by Tokyo (AP)-One of the strongest earthquakes in the world met Russia in the Far East early Wednesday, a Temblor of 8.8, which triggered a tsunami in the North Pacific region and triggered warnings for Alaska, Hawaii and South in the direction of New Zealand.
Tsunami warning sirens on Tuesday in Honolulu and people moved to higher soil.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said that a first Tsunami wave of about 30 centimeters (about 1 foot) had reached Nemuro on the east coast of Hokkaido.
Damage and evacuations were reported in the Russian regions that are closest to the epicenter of the quake on the Kamchatka peninsula.
According to the local governor Valery Limarenko, the first tsunami wave hit the coastal area of Severo-Kurilsk, the main settlement on the Russian spur islands in the Pacific. He said the residents were safe and stayed on the high ground until the risk of a wave of repeats has disappeared.
The warning center of the Pacific Tsunami warning center said that waves from 1 to 3 meters (yards) above the tide level are possible along some coastal areas of Hawaii, Chile, Japan and the Solomons. In some coastal areas of Russia and Ecuadors, waves of more than 3 meters (yards) were possible.
The Pacific Tsunami warning center said that a tsunami was created by the quake that could cause damage along the coasts of all Hawaiian islands.
“Urgent measures should be taken to protect life and property,” says the warning. The first waves were expected on Tuesday around 7 p.m. local time.
The quake at 8:25 a.m. Japan had a preliminary size of 8.0, said Japan and US -Seismologist. The US Geological Survey later updated its measurement to 8.8 magnitude, and the USGs stated that the quake took place at a depth of 20.7 kilometers (13 miles).
The quake was about 119 kilometers from the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has 180,000 inhabitants, on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The Russia’s Tass News Agency said that the people in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky got on the streets without shoes or outer clothing. Cupboards that had fallen in houses, the mirrors were broken, cars fluctuated on the street and balconies on buildings trembled noticeably. TASS also reported power outages and mobile phone service errors.
Tass also quoted a local Russian official with the words that the residents on Sakhalin Island are evacuated and the emergency services worked with full capacity.
The Tsunami Warning Center based in Alaska, based in Alaska, gave a tsunami warning for parts of the Alaska aluminum and a watch for parts of the west coast, including California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii.
The advice also includes a large part of the coastline in Alaska, including parts of the Panhandle.
The earthquake seemed to be the strongest somewhere in the world since the earthquake in March 2011 in front of Northeast Japan, which caused the size of 9.0 and a massive tsunami that triggered the meltdown in a nuclear power plant in Fukushima. Only a few stronger earthquakes were measured worldwide.
The New Zealand authorities gave warnings along the coast of “strong and unusual currents and unpredictable sites”. The warning of the state emergency management agency said that people should be removed from the water, beaches and land areas and ports, marinas, rivers and fluids.
New Zealand is in the South Pacific and about 6,000 miles from the epicenter.
At the beginning of July, five mighty quakes – the largest with a size of 7.4 – met in the sea near Kamchatka. The largest quake was at a depth of 20 kilometers and was 144 kilometers east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
On November 4, 1952, a quake in Kamchatka caused a quake of 9.0 9.0 damage, but no deaths, although they triggered 9.1 meters (30-foot) in Hawaii.
