Meanwhile, the US NWS in Guam has indicated a possibility of tidal effects of 1 to 3.3 feet reaching Kwajalein Island atoll by 5:21 pm and Majuro atoll by 5:43 pm (local time).
A powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of Russia generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, Hawaii and the US West Coast. The quake registered a magnitude of 8.8 and was centred off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, according to the US Geological Survey.The first tsunami wave hit the coastal area of Severo-Kurilsk, the main settlement on Russia’s Kuril Islands in the Pacific, according to the local governor Valery Limarenko.
The tremors caused small tsunami waves in Japan and Alaska and prompted warnings for Hawaii, North and Central America and Pacific islands south toward New Zealand. Waves less than a foot above tide levels were observed in the Alaskan communities of Amchitka and Adak.
Waves washed up to the shoreline on Japan’s Hokkaido in the north and Ibaraki and Chiba, just northeast of Tokyo. A tsunami of 50 centimeters (1.6 feet) was detected at the Ishinomaki port in northern Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Hawaii Gov Josh Green told the media that data from Midway Atoll, which is between Japan and Hawaii, measured waves from peak to trough of 6 feet (1.8 meters). He said waves hitting Hawaii could be bigger or smaller and it was too early to tell how large they would be.
