The Japan Meteorological Agency held a news conference after a tsunami warning was issued for the country’s Pacific coast following a magnitude 8.7 earthquake near Kamchatka in Russia.
Agency official Kiyomoto Masashi urged people who are near the coast or rivers to immediately evacuate to higher ground and stay in a safe location until the warning is lifted.
Kiyomoto said the first waves were estimated to arrive at 10 a.m. Japan Time, or 1 a.m. UTC, and that they may have already reached the country’s coasts.
He warned that tsunamis can repeatedly strike over an extended period of time. He also said later waves may be larger than the first.
Expert: Largest tsunami could take time to come
An expert says Japan faces a potential tsunami similar in scale to the one caused by a 1952 quake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
Professor Imamura Fumihiko at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science says a roughly three-meter tsunami hit Japan after that quake.
He says that tsunamis triggered around this area are likely to arrive at the expected time, but then would be followed by even larger ones. The professor says the largest could take even longer to reach Japan’s coast.
Tsunami observed in parts of Japan Tsunami waves have reached parts of Japan’s Pacific coastal regions following a powerful earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday.
A 40-centimeter tsunami was recorded in Tokachi port and a 30-centimeter wave recorded in Erimo town in the southeastern part of Hokkaido at 10:46 a.m.
They’ve also been observed in the Tohoku and Kanto regions. The waves are about 20 to 40 centimeters high. There are no reports of major damage so far.
Earlier, 30-centimeter waves hit Hanasaki port in Nemuro at 10:30 a.m., Hamanaka town at 10:36 a.m. and Kushiro port at 10:42 a.m. in eastern Hokkaido.
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