PUBLISHED : 30 Jul 2025 at 08:39
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A television screen shows a news report on Japan Weather Agency’s tsunami warning, saying it expected tsunami waves of up to 3 meters (10 feet) to reach large coastal areas in Japan after a powerful earthquake struck off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, in Tokyo, Japan July 30, 2025. REUTERS
Japan issued a tsunami warning after a powerful earthquake off the eastern coast of Russia on Wednesday morning local time.
The magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, according to the US Geological Survey.
Tsunami warnings have been issued for Hawaii and parts of Alaska, and a tsunami watch is in force from the California-Mexico border to Chignik Bay, Alaska, according to the US National Weather Service’s Tsunami Warning System. Guam is also under a tsunami watch.
The warning system flagged threats of tsunami waves hitting Japan, the Philippines, Russia, and some Pacific islands including Yap and the Marshall Islands.
AloJapan.com