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An earthquake of 8.8 degrees, the strongest in this area for almost 73 years, was registered in the early hours of the sea zone, opened by the Russian peninsula Kamchatka, causing tsunami in Russia and Japan and causing unusual warnings to citizens.
Tsunami has already flooded the city of North-Kurilsk, in the northern part of the Russian archipelago, known as the training islands, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation.
A video uploaded to sites of social networks depict swift waters when they invaded real estate in the city of about 2,000 inhabitants, whose population accelerated.
At the same time, the direct plans of Japanese television depicted people to leave, cars or on foot, to areas at higher altitudes, especially on the northern Hokkaido Island, where the first tsunami was observed about 30 cm in height.
The American Institute of Geophysical Research (USGS) initially referred to an earthquake of 8 points, and then revised the estimate of 8.7 and, finally, 8.8 points. The vibration was recorded at 02:35 (Greek time) at a depth of 20.7 kilometers, in the sea region, about 126 kilometers from the capital of the Kamchatka region, on the far -east of Russia.
According to scientists from the Service of the Geophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, this is the most powerful earthquake registered in this area since 1952.
Japanese public television NHK interrupted its regular schedule and began to illuminate the development live, and his speaker begged the inhabitants of Seaside: “Hurry up to save your life.”
According to TPOKO, the workers present at the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima (Eastern Japan), where, according to Tepko, it was hastened that one of the two most serious atomic accidents in modern history was hasty.
The tsunami repeatedly affects, and the Japanese meteorological service (JMA) warned citizens not to go to sea and “do not approach the coasts of rising anxiety.” The service initially predicted that the waves will reach 1 meter, and then considered, given that they can reach 3 meters.
Some railway joints were suspended.
The press secretary of the government of Yoimas Hayay also urged residents of the districts for extraordinary warning ballots to go to safe places or buildings.
The warnings relate to all the northern and eastern coasts even in Osaka, South, as well as with small regional islands. In Tokyo and Osaka, the waves were projected up to 1 meter.
According to the United States, the U.S. early warning center in the Pacific Ocean (PTWC), Hawaii and Guam, Hawaii and Guam had possible “dangerous” waves of earthquakes of California, Oregon and Washington. The same source calculated that the coast of Ecuador was in danger.
They are also possible for waves 1-3 meters high, on the coast of Chile, Costa Rica, French Polynesia, etc., he added.
For its part, the Mexican government ordered civil defense to make sure that the population would be removed from the coast. The Military Fleet also warned that “very strong flows at the entrances to the port” expected the state of Bach California (north -west) to Cialipas (South).
Waves for 1 meter waves were also released from Australia to Colombia, from the Philippines to New Zealand, from Toga to Taiwan and Indonesia.
The Philippines specially invited residents to the coast to go deep into the country, to areas with a greater height, waiting for a tsunami up to 1 meter from 08:20 to 09:40 (Greece Cours), urging the fishermen to the sea to stay in the waters.
According to USGS, at least six powerful post -semi -heal vibrations, including two very strong, 6.9 and 6.3 degrees, were registered after the main earthquake. Russian seismologists in Kamchatka warned that next month it was impossible to exclude up to 7.5 points.
On July 20, the 7.4th was recorded.
Today’s earthquake caused only a few small injuries of Russia, at least according to local authorities.
According to the United States, the epicenter of the earthquake is very close to the terrible earthquake with the 9th depity in November 1952, which caused the destructive tsunami, which struck the entire Pacific Ocean.
The complexity on the Kamkatka peninsula – this crosses the tectonic plates of the Pacific and North America, which means that this area has one of the highest seismicities on the planet.
The Russian peninsula, which separates the Achogka sea from the Pacific Ocean, is one of the areas “most susceptible to earthquakes in the world”, as USGS is expressed.
Since 1900, seven very powerful earthquakes have been registered – equal or above 8.3 degrees – along this peninsula.