The American Tsunamis Center (PTWC), qualifying the potential impact of “dangerous”, alerts on a risk of waves of more than 3 m along certain coasts of the equator, the northwest of the Hawaiian islands and Russia.
Tsunamis from one to three meters above the tide level are also possible along certain coasts of Chile, Costa Rica, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Japan and other Pacific islands and archipelagos, he adds.
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Finally, tsunamis up to 1 m can be expected elsewhere, especially in Australia, Colombia, Mexico, New Zealand, Tonga and Taiwan.
In Mexico, the authorities ordered the inhabitants of the whole Pacific coast, from fariform to chiapas, to stay away from the ocean.
The Philippines also urged the inhabitants of the East Coast to move towards the interior, providing for a tsunami up to 1 m between 07:20 and 8:40 in Switzerland and advised fishermen already at sea to stay off deep waters.
China and Peru have also expressed alerts. The Ecuadorian authorities ordered the “preventive evacuation” of the Galapagos Islands.
