‘Prepared for a long stay’: tsunami alert triggers mass evacuations across Pacific | Asia Pacific

IGuam’s Pacific region began to ping Sam Mabini’s phone shortly before lunch on Tuesday. After hitting a remote part of the Russian coast, a tsunami warning was given after a strong earthquake of 8.8 magnitude. Authorities, destructive waves in the coming hours of the coastline can hit and people can call away from the beach to the concerns. Mabini, a former Guam senator, took action.

“I went to the higher place just in case,” he said. His family lived in the lower part of Tamuning and moved to a more raised part of the village. He joined other inhabitants of Agana Heights, a higher part of Hagåtña, the capital of the US Island in the Western Pacific Ocean.

From Russian and Chinese ports to the Japanese fishing communities, the coastal cities on the western coast of the USA in Latin America, in the villages, towns and cities in the world’s largest ocean, in Latin America, warnings and evacuation orders emerged after the earthquake, one of the most powerful recorded. The workers were sent home and they were locked as they were preparing for them to hit them in the coming hours.

On Wednesday, governments in many countries, including the United States and Japan, have dropped their first tsunami warnings, but not until countless people in multiple time periods escaped as a precaution in the middle of the night.

In some parts of Russia, waves were recorded up to 4 meters and the authorities called on people to move away from the shore. In Japan, the images of the public publisher NHK showed many people on the roof of a building on the island of North Hokkaido, leaving the ports from the ports to prevent potential damage to the waves coming from fishing boats, hosting the tents from the fighting sun.

Approximately 200 people in Japan were evacuated to a Buddhist temple sitting on a high ground facing Kamaishi, a city that lost about 1,250 residents in the Tsunami, the destructive March 2011 Tsunami. Senjuin temple is a determined municipal tsunami evacuation area.

The head of the priest Keio Shibasaki told the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper: “ [2011] Earthquake, the number of release is relatively small, but we started to prepare lunch with foods stored under unpredictable conditions such as power outages. We’re ready to stay long. “

Among those released were staff and children from the City Hall, post office and nearby Kamaishi Kindergarten.

“We were evacuated when the tsunami warning was given,” said Keito Fujiwara, President of Kindergarten.. “We hide urgent food supplies in the temple and we are preparing accordingly. In the 2011 earthquake, there were cases where parents took their children and sacrificed, so we communicated with the group line. [a popular Japanese messaging app] No one should go to take their children. “

In 2011, the tsunami waves swept the Kamaishi Tsunami Protection Balgaması, a project of $ 1.5 billion, which had been completed two years ago, and diluted the city in the scenes that were caught in the video and in the world.

In Hawaii, the tsunami warning sirens revived twice on multiple islands, including Oahu, where the capital Honolulu and Kauai were located on Tuesday afternoon. Honolulu Emergency Management Department warned some coastal areas for some coastal areas: “Take action! Destructive tsunami waves are expected.”

Residents competed to go out, traffic was supported in some Honolulu neighborhoods. Although there is a summer holiday for students, some schools published warnings that cancel the sports and other activities.

In Kauaii, shortly after the tsunami warning was given, the personnel at the National Tropical Botanic Garden suspended tours on the southern coast and carried all visitors and employees to a higher place than the underwater region.

Nevertheless, the Blue Sky and Havazil Conditions have been identified as safe areas for the home or the heavily populated coastline of the islands for many people in Hawaii. After publishing a false warning of Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency in 2018, a “ballistic missile threat”, the inhabitants who caused widespread panic became particularly sensitive to phone warnings and civil defense sirens.

All Islands activated emergency operating centers, shelters were opened and people in the coastal areas were advised to go to the higher place immediately. Kauai police He asked the people to stay away from the road unless necessary. After the waves arrived, it was not as destructive as feared, and Hawaii said that the Emergency Management Agency was removed and that there were no major damage reports.

In Guam, the inhabitants were asked to get out of the water and were told to move away from the beaches and ports at least 100FT (30 meters) at the inside and at sea level. While the port authority and other state institutions suspended operations, Marina users and local residents were told to be evacuated to a higher ground. Workers in some businesses, including the Guam Visit Office in Tumon coastal region, were sent home.

However, some were not worried about warnings. Tessa Borja, a policy analyst from Tumon, did not feel that he was released and stayed in his second floor apartment. “We are protected by the reef,” he said.

Similar warnings were published in Saipan, the largest island and capital of North Mariana Islands. State offices were closed and businesses in low areas closed their doors. There was a long vehicle line that wanted to fill the gas stations.

Some residents living near the coastline in Saipan, an island of about 43,000 people, fled to a higher place while waiting openly from the authorities. Tsunami exercises are regularly organized by the emergency authorities on the island.