Japan’s meteorological agency has issued a tsunami alert for Japan’s Pacific coast, upgrading an earlier advisory stemming from the powerful, magnitude 8.7 quake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
The agency issued an advisory for a tsunami of up to 3 meteres across the Pacific coast of Japan, possibly starting to arrive along the northern Japanese coasts within half an hour after the advisory was raised to alert level on Wednesday.
A tsunami warning also was extended to Hawaii, with the U.S. National Weather Service’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center saying a tsunami from the quake had been generated that could cause damage along the coastlines of all the Hawaiian islands.
First waves were expected around 7 p.m. local time.
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