Tsunami risk eases, volcano erupts after Russian quake
A very powerful 8.8 earthquake from Russia’s Far East Kamchatka coast triggered its tsunami warnings as far away as French Polynesia and Chile, and followed the explosion of the most active volcano on the peninsula.
The shallow earthquake was damaged and wounded several people in the distant Russian region, in most of the eastern coast of Japan – in 2011 with an earthquake of 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami – ordered to leave in some parts of Hawaii.
In the evening, Japan, Hawaii and Russia have reduced most tsunami warnings.
However, the French officials in Polynesia warned that many of the remote Marquesas Islands would move to a higher place and wait for high waves of 2.5 meters.
Local officials said that the tsunami waves began to hit Marquesas on Wednesday, but it was expected to be smaller than the initially feared.
The French Supreme Commission, Nuku Hiva, the largest Marquesas, was reported in Nuku Hiva, the largest of Marquesas.
Russian scientists said the earthquake in Kamchatka has been the most powerful that has hit the region since 1952.
The US Geology Survey said it was shallow at a depth of 19.3 km and that 165,000 cities were centered in the east-south east of 119 km.
“He felt that the walls could collapse at any moment. The swing took at least three minutes,” said Yaroslav in the city.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that in Russia, it is not dependent on the construction of solid building construction and warning systems without any problems.
Russia’s RIA News Agency, in Severo-Kurilsk on the North Kuril Islands, tsunami waves exceeded three meters, up to five meters.
The German Geosciences Research Center hit the Kuril Islands extending between Kamchatka and Northern Japan, a 6.07 earthquake.
Tsunami waves, Regional Authorities and Russian Ministry of Emergency, Port Port and Fish processing facility partially left.
He showed the entire coastline of the town with verified drone images, longer buildings and some storage facilities surrounded by water.
According to a geological monitoring service, Russia’s Klyuchevskoy volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula began to explode later.
Located about 450 km north of the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Klyuchevskoy is one of the highest volcanoes in the world.
“A descent of hot lava on the western slope is observed. A strong glow on the volcano, explosions,” he said.
Authorities, Hawaii’nin up to 1.7 meters recorded waves, recorded the recorded largest 1.3 meters, he said.
The transport department said that flights from Honolulu airports started in the evening.
Approximately half -meter waves were observed in the state of California, USA, and the smaller ones reached Canada’s British Kolumbi province.
However, a tsunami consultancy was canceled for coastal British Columbia and South Alaska coastal areas.
French polynesia waves hit some islands in the early hours of the morning.
In other parts, wave heights were expected to remain below 30 cm, which did not require people to be separation or shelter.
Although Marquesas is highly rising volcanic islands, most of the French polynesia consist of low atols.
Kamchatka and Russia’s Far East sits on the Pacific Fire Ring, a geologically active zone prone to earthquakes and volcanic explosions.
According to scientists, the earthquake occurred in what is known as the “Megathrust error”, where the more intense pacific plate shifted under the lighter North American plate.
The Pacific plate made the Kamchatka Peninsula in particular vulnerable from the Far East Coast of Russia, and larger aftershocks could not be ignored.
Video images from the Ministry of Health of the region, while shaking the depressive operating rooms Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky’deki a team of medical officials showed.
CCTV images published by the Ministry of Health of the Kamchatka region used their hands to try to fix both the patient and equipment.
With DPA
