🗺️8.8-magnitude quake triggers Pacific-wide tsunami alerts

🗺️8.8-magnitude quake triggers Pacific-wide tsunami alerts

⭕ An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s 🇷🇺 Kamchatka Peninsula, 136 km (84 miles) east Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

⭕ Tsunami alerts issued for 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇺🇸 United States (West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska’s Aleutians), 🇹🇼 Taiwan, 🇵🇭 Philippines and parts of 🇮🇩 Indonesia.

⭕ 10-foot tsunami waves are possible for some coasts of the Northern Hawaiian Islands.

⭕ It’s too soon to say how destructive or widespread the tsunami waves will be. Initial waves that hit Japan were smaller than initially forecast but authorities across the Pacific are urging vigilance and ordering evacuations as the impact may differ between locations.

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