Tsunami Evacuations Ordered In South America, But Worst Risk Appears To Pass For U.S. After Huge Quake

Tokyo (AP) – The most powerful earthquakes recorded so far On Wednesday, Russia hit the Far East with a rare population and sent tsunami waves to Japan, Hawaii and the US West coast. A few people were injured, but there was no heavy damage and no damage has been reported so far.

Authorities, 8.8 -magnitude earthquake can take hours of risk and millions of people warned. Potentially in the way of waves Initially, they were told to move away from the shore or search for high ground.

Worst of all, the USA, Japan and Russia, including many areas. However, along the Pacific coast of South America, new warnings were forcing evacuation in Chile and Colombia.

Russia’s immediately after the earthquake Kamchatka PeninsulaAs the inhabitants were flooded, they fled the inside and many were wounded while hurried to leave the buildings.

In Japan, people flocked to evacuation centers, hill parks and roofs in towns on the Pacific Coast with the new memories of the 2011 earthquake. A nuclear disaster.

Cars, the streets and highways in Honolulu squeezed, even in the sea away from the sea stood in the traffic.

“There is water, we have some snacks … We will remain high, Ark Arkansas said, Jimmy Markowski, who escaped from Waikiki Beach Resort before his family evacuated orders from Hot Springs. “This is our first tsunami warning so far. So it’s all new for us.”

While Tsunami consultants remained in force for most of the US Western coast, the US Internal Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that the worst is over.

“We were exactly deployed and we were ready to answer if necessary, but we are grateful because we don’t have to deal with the situation that it could happen,” he said.

Unusual current and unpredictable fluctuations were expected in places far from New Zealand, and warned that the National Weather Service San Francisco Gulf Region could see serious dangerous currents during the beaches and ports.

The earthquake seemed to be the most powerful since the 9.0 -magnitude earthquake from Northeast Japan in March 2011. a big tsunami And he set off to a nuclear power plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency said the first reports showed that Japan’s nuclear power plants were not affected on Wednesday.

Only A few more powerful earthquakes It was measured worldwide. On Wednesday, it occurred along the Pacific “Fire Ring”, a number of seismic errors in which most world earthquakes took place around the Pacific Ocean.

According to the US geology research, the earthquake hit Kamchatka in Kamchatka, which has a size of 8.8 and about 21 kilometers (13 miles). About 120 kilometers (75 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the regional capital of Kamchatka, is an open sea-centered sea.

Many strong aftershocks were shocked up to 6.9 magnitude.

Russia’s Oshinology Institute said that the tsunami waves could be as high as 10 to 15 meters (30 to 50 feet) in some parts of the Kamchatka coast – but the highest one is less than 6 meters (20 feet) near the population of the peninsula and nearby Kuruil islands.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Lava began to flow from Klyuchevskaya of Kamchatka, the largest active in the Northern Hemisphere, from Volcano. The Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences said that observers also heard explosions.

Chile, which is a vulnerable place against earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis, increased the warning to the highest level for most of the Early Pacific Coast on Wednesday and evacuated hundreds of people.

Gabriel Boric, President of the Chile, said on social media, “Remember that the first wave is often not the most powerful,” he said. “Let’s be calm and watch the official instructions.”

Colombian officials ordered the completely closure and evacuation of beaches and low tidal areas while the sea traffic was restricted.

Ekvador training officials canceled the lessons in schools on the Galapagos Islands and communities on the beach.

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the regional capital of Kamchatka, Quake was damaged by a local kindergarten that was not in operation at that time because it was renewed.

Oleg Melnikov, President of the Regional Health Department, said that several people had damaged them while hurrying out to leave the buildings and that a hospital patient was injured while jumping through the window. Melnikov said that all wounded people are stable.

A video published by a Russian media organization showed a doctor team that holds a patient in a cancer clinic in Kamchatka, holding a patient and holding medical equipment while holding a surgical hall and shaking a surgery.

Authorities introduced an emergency with a sparse population in the nearby wolves after the tsunami. Previously, Severo-Kurilsk, the main city on the islands, left the fishing port under the islands and reduced power supplies to the region. The mayor of the port said it was not great damage.

Authorities in Kamchatka Peninsula and Kurils canceled the tsunami warnings, but said there was some risk of waves.

The officials in Hawaii put the state under a tsunami consultant on Wednesday, and the evacuation orders in Big Island and Oahu, the most crowded island, were removed.

A consultancy means that water suppression is the potential of water supply in beaches or ports as well as strong currents and dangerous waves.

Hawaii Emergency Management Agency Manager James Barros, “As he returns home, he still stays away from the beach and stay away from the water,” he said.

In Northern California, Tsunami activity continued to build a 3.6 fit (1.1 meter) coast in Crescent City on Wednesday morning with maximumly approved heights along the coast.

Oregon Emergency Management Ministry, said small tsunami waves are expected, he said.

“This is not a big tsunami, but dangerous currents and powerful waves can pose a risk for those close to water,” he said.

Vancouver Island, British Columbia’s parts and Alautian islands of Alautian islands of the tidal levels were expected to be observed up to 1.4 feet (below 30 centimeters).

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, a tsunam was recorded in 2 feet (60 centimeters) in the town of Hamanaka in Hokkaido and Kuji in Iwate. A few areas reported smaller waves and at least one person was injured.

In Iwaki City in Fukushima, the central base of the 2011 tsunami and earthquake, dozens of calm, calling a community siren and climber doors were closed in a hill park.

The operator said that the workers in the Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was seriously damaged in 2011, took refuge in the higher ground while watching the operations remotely.

Japan had reduced the tsunami warning late on Wednesday, but left a consultancy along the Pacific coast.

In the Philippines, Mexico and New Zealand, the inhabitants warned the residents to monitor waves and strong currents. In addition, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Micronesia and Solomon Islands were asked to stay away from the coastline until any wave fluctuation was passed in the federations.

Isachenkov reported from Moscow.