00:00In Russia's Sakhalin region, tsunami waves flood the coastal area after a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula, the water flooding the coastal town's port and a fish processing plant.
00:17While inland, emergency crews clean the debris from the site of a damaged kindergarten, one of dozens of buildings destroyed in the quake.
00:25Specialists have already begun a thorough inspection of sites and socially significant facilities for possible damage.
00:34This includes schools, hospitals and kindergartens.
00:37We have information that at the kindergarten number 15, one wall has collapsed.
00:42Fortunately, children and adults were not at the site at that moment.
00:46That quake triggered tsunami warnings throughout the Pacific.
00:49In Japan's Hokkaido region, tsunami sirens sounded through the coastal region as authorities urged people to seek higher ground.
01:01I heard the warning at work as my workplace is by the beach.
01:05My co-workers told me to come home because I have a small child and she was waiting at home so I came to pick her up.
01:11It's a similar scene in North America where officials have been monitoring the tsunami threat risk in Hawaii, Alaska and along the B.C. coast.
01:20Right now we still have not seen any wave activity come past the Big Island.
01:25That's important until we see what happens on the Big Island and the full wraparound of the islands.
01:30We won't feel that we are in a position to start seeing and saying that we're...
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