00:00A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake has triggered a series of tsunami warnings and evacuation
00:05orders across Japan, the west coast of the United States and parts of the Pacific after
00:09checking the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.
00:12The earthquake was the strongest in the region since 1952, according to the Russian Academy
00:16of Sciences.
00:17It occurred at a depth of 19.3 km and had its epicenter 126 km east-southeast of Petropavlov-Syamkatsuki,
00:26a city located in Abasha Bay.
00:28In this context, a tsunami between three and four meters high was recorded in some areas
00:32of Kamchatka, according to Sergey Lebedev, regional minister of emergency situations, with reports
00:38of several injuries.
00:39In addition, the U.S. tsunami warning system issued a warning of dangerous tsunami waves
00:43in the coming hours on some coasts of Russia, Japan, Alaska and Hawaii.
00:58The tsunami wave nurtured by the most powerful earthquake that has occurred in Russia since
01:021952 reached up to five meters in that territory.
01:06While Japan and the United States report waves of between one and two meters, so far no fatalities
01:11have been reported.
01:12Russia, Japan, the United States and Guam issued urgent evacuation orders from coastal areas.
01:17After the powerful 8.8 earthquake that shook Kamchatka, the Kuri Islands were impacted by strong waves,
01:24power outages and several aftershakes.
01:27Meanwhile, Hokkaido was the first Japanese city to receive the wave impact.
01:31Those over 900,000 people were evacuated as well as all workers at the Fukushima nuclear
01:36power plant.
01:37Likewise, the U.S. territories of Hawaii and Alaska reported waves of up to two meters.
01:41In addition, dangerous currents and sea level rises are expected in New Zealand, the Philippines,
01:46Guam, Canada and Australia.
01:50They are on tsunami alerts.
01:52In this context, tsunami alerts were issued in Latin American countries bordering the Pacific
01:56Ocean.
01:57Tsunamis with waves possibly exceeding four meters are approached in several Latin American countries
02:01such as Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras after hitting Japan and Hawaii.
02:06European authorities have already issued emergency alerts and announced the closure of Costa Verde
02:10in Lima, while the Choco and Nariño regions in Colombia were among the first localities
02:15in the country to receive the alert.
02:16While the Chilean government estimated the arrival of the tsunamis at 10 a.m. local time,
02:21Ecuador had already spotted waves of up to 1.4 meters high in the Galapagos Islands.
02:27Thank you very much.
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