Tsunami alerts in the Pacific demoted after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in eastern Russia. Find the information

This Live was also led by Louise Vallée. In addition, Grégor Brandy and Estela Blénet (Photo Service).

Tsunami alerts were issued throughout the Pacific, after an earthquake of magnitude 8.8. In addition, Tuesday, July 29, off the Russian Kamchatka peninsula, the most powerful in the region in nearly sixty-three years, which has led to population evacuations, especially in Japan, Chile and Peru, which closed several of its ports.

In the port of Severo-Kourilsk, in the north of the Russian archipelago of Kouriles, several successive waves submerged the streets. However, One of them, on the Kamchatka peninsula, reached 3 to 4 meters high.

Several countries have finally raised. downgraded the alerts issued earlier, such as the Russian authorities in Kamchatka or Japan throughout the country. If several people have been slightly injured in eastern Russia. tsunami alerts pacific demoted after none of the countries affected by tsunami alerts, on both sides of the Pacific, has for the time said.

First waves hit the Marquesas archipelago in the night in French Polynesia. but the tsunami alert was lifted on the ground by the authorities. The geophysics laboratory. however, provides for ” a second arrival (…) With waves of a lesser height “ and the “Vigilance and the ban on nautical activities” was maintained.

In the United States. the threat of a major tsunami “Has completely passed”welcomed the Minister of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, providing for a «Minimum Impact» on the west coast still on alert.

The Klioutchevskii volcano. located on the Russian Kamchatka peninsula, erupted following the powerful earthquake and then tsunamis that touched this farm region, reported the unified geophysical service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.