DIRECT. Tsunami alert after a powerful earthquake in the Pacific, waves of more than 3 meters possible

On social networks. Therefore, the images of traffic jams on the Hawaii archipelago have multiplied since the start of the tsunami alert.

The American Center for Tsunamis has alerted on a risk of waves more than three meters high on certain parts of the coasts of Russia. Therefore, the Hawaii archipelago.

The Ecuadorian authorities. Furthermore, also orders the “preventive evacuation” of the coast of the Galapagos islands due to the tsunami alert.

The secretariat for risk prevention ordered “the immediate suspension of maritime activities. Similarly, as well as the preventive evacuation of the beaches, quays and low zones” of the archipelago, located 1,000 km from the continent, according to a press release.

The Mexican government is ordering. However, civil protection to maintain the population distant from the Pacific coast after the tsunami alert.

The Mexico Navy said it expected. Moreover, in a report, to “strong currents at the entrance to the ports”, from the state of Basse-California (northwest) to Chiapas (South), on the west coast of the country.

The employees present at the Fukushima nuclear power plant (eastern Japan). injured in 2011, were evacuated this morning after the tsunami alert issued after a powerful earthquake off the Russian coast, the site operator announced.

“We have evacuated all the workers. our employees,” a spokesperson for Tepco told AFP, adding that “no anomaly has been observed” on the site. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had been devastated by an earthquake. a historic tsunami direct. tsunami alert after powerful in March 2011, and is being dismantled.

A 30 cm high tsunami was observed around 3:55 (French time) in northern Japan, according to NHK public television.

In the wake of this tsunami. which struck the island of Hokkaido (North), the NHK warned that the following tsunamis could be much higher. The Japanese meteorological agency had previously announced that waves of up to 3 meters were expected along the northern. east coast of Japan, to the south of Osaka.

On the side of Russia. around 4 am, a tsunami flooded the Russian city of Severo-Kourilsk, in the Kourile Islands, according to the authorities.

Several people are injured in the Kamthatka peninsula, on the Russian Pacific Coast, during the powerful 8.7 magnitude earthquake that occurred direct. tsunami alert after powerful near the coast. caused a tsunami, announced the Russian state agency TASS, citing regional health authorities.

“I urge everyone to stay far from the coast in areas threatened by tsunami. listen to the announcements by loudspeaker,” the governor of Kamchatka, Vladimir Solodov on Telegram.

At least six aftershocks shaken the region, one of which is magnitude 6.9 and another of magnitude 6.3. The seismological service of kamchatka warned that up to 7.5 replicas are expected in the coming days.

Authorities alert to a risk of waves of more than three meters in French Polynesia. but also in Japan, Russia, Hawaii and Ecuador.

Japan, Hawaii, Alaska, East Chinese coast, Peru … dozens of territories have issued tsunamis alerts following direct. tsunami alert after powerful the earthquake.

Hello everyone. welcome to this direct devoted to the powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.8 on the Richter scale that occurred around 1:20 (French time) off Kamthatka, in eastern Russia.

This earthquake is the sixth more powerful ever recorded on the planet according to the Institute of Geological Studies of. the United States (USGS).