Tsunami Hits Hawaii; All Flights Canceled
According to the English section of webangah News Agency, citing Mehr News Agency and Al Jazeera, CNN reported that tsunami waves triggered by an 8.5-magnitude earthquake in eastern Russia have reached Hawaii in the United States.
Hawaiian authorities announced that flights at airports in the region have been canceled due to the tsunami threat.
Reuters also reported rising wave heights along Hawaii’s coast.
Simultaneously occurring, officials in Severokurilsk, Russia, confirmed that four tsunami waves followed the earthquake in their area.
Earlier, TASS news agency reported that 2,700 people near kamchatka’s coast were evacuated and relocated to safe areas on the kuril Islands after the severe earthquake.
The Russian Geophysical Survey stated that 30 aftershocks measuring between magnitude 2 and 5 have been recorded since the main quake near Kamchatka’s shores.
Following this major earthquake in eastern Russia, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia-as well as Peru and China-issued tsunami warnings. Chinese authorities recently warned of possible tsunamis affecting eastern parts of their country.
This morning, a branch of russia’s academy of Sciences Research Center confirmed that the earthquake shaking Kamchatka Peninsula’s coasts measured 8.5 on the Richter scale. The center emphasized that such an event is extremely rare and remarkable.
CNN described this quake as the strongest recorded worldwide since 2011 along Russia’s eastern coastline.
