Tsunami waves caused by the devastating earthquake in Japan have come up with less force than expected to the Pacific coast of America. Chile is the only country to remain alert, and only on the U.S. west coast have been recorded victims, four wounded and one missing. After the earthquake of magnitude 8.9 on the Richter scale, virtually the entire west coast of America, from Canada to Chile, issued warnings about the possibility of huge waves put at risk to coastal populations.
Initially, experts had warned of the possibility of waves up to two meters in Hawaii, after which devastated the Japanese port of Sendai earthquake reached ten meters. The fears, however, were dispelled as the day wore on and after the first tsunami waves hit the islands of Kauai and Oahu, Hawaii, with reduced strength.
According to Gerard Fryer, the Tsunami Warning Center Pacific, the highest peak recorded in the first wave arrived in the Hawaiian island of Kauai was one meter, while some parts of Big Island and Maui experienced flooding when waves of 2 meters hit the coast. Despite warnings from the authorities asking for the public to stay away from the beaches and ports, in anticipation of an unusual rise in sea level, the U.S.
said the five victims, onlookers who came to see firsthand the announced arrival of the tsunami. Four of them were rescued by rescue teams in Oregon, while one remains missing in northern California, where he was declared a state of emergency for four counties with numerous damage in ports and beaches.
Around five o'clock the Spanish, the U.S. Agency for Oceans (NOAA) canceled a tsunami warning for the states of Oregon and Washington, in the U.S., and the Canadian province of British Columbia. Only small waves in Mexico After Hawaii, the tsunami reached the Latin American territory to Mexico, where waves were recorded only 70 inches on the coast, according to President Felipe Calderón.
The president said that the first and the second wave arrived in Mexico along the coast of Baja California, northwest of the country, and its size did not exceed the level of high tide. " After Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua suspended the notice to the end of the afternoon (at around three o'clock in Spain), after the authorities found that the effect was limited to a nearly imperceptible waves in the Pacific coast.
Ecuador and Chile Alerts The alert was also raised in Ecuador, where about six o'clock in the afternoon (one o'clock in Spain) the tsunami reached the Galapagos Islands, located about 1,000 kilometers from the continent and the sea retreated 30 meters and flooded urban areas in the town of San Cristobal, according to President Rafael Correa.
Were evacuated 240,000 people residing in coastal areas of the country and the Galapagos. "Returned the water flooded the population and still coming in," Bush said. "Everything is prepared in the Galapagos. There is no risk of human lives," said Correa, who said that yes there will be destruction of property "because he entered the water hard." Later, in Chile, which suffered a devastating tsunami after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake of 27 February 2010, the government raised the alert level alarm preventive coastlines across the mainland, by detecting the level of Tues 54 inches fell on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean, 3,500 kilometers of continental Chile.
"We need the public to join us in waiting. It is better to be prudent reckless", said Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter. The government also ordered the preventive evacuation of the flooded areas around the mainland coast, which extends over 4,000 kilometers. The first wave arrived in the evening (local time) on the coast of Peru had between 15 and 40 inches high, despite which the authorities stated that they will continue monitoring in anticipation of the next wave may be more intense.
In Colombia, for fear of the authorities that there would be a strong wave warning was issued for Pacific coast, which meant no evacuation order. Apart from the western Pacific coast, coastal areas worldwide hansufrido a greater or lesser extent the effects of Japanese earthquake. Russia: 11,000 evacuated The tsunami was particularly the Kuril Islands, Rodrigo Fernandez reports from Moscow.
The waves were between one and three meters. On the island of Shikotan had its maximum height, while the Kushana reached two meters. The Russians, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, were prepared and Tsunami Warning Center gave the warning in time, nine minutes before the arrival of the waves, so the 11,000 people who were at risk areas had time to take refuge in the candidate locations for these cases.
Alexandr Joroshavin governor of the province of Sakhalin, which owns the Kuril archipelago, said "the situation is totally under control." Joroshavin explained that thousands of people were evacuated immediately after the earthquake in the northeastern coast of Japan and added that ships sailing in the waters of the danger zone were told that they went to sea.
Meteorological Institute said the tsunami waves also reached the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin and Primorye, but none of them caused major damage or casualties. The tsunami warning was lifted in the Kuril Islands after the passing of the third wave. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered Sergey Shoigu, Emergency Situations Minister, to prepare proposals to come to the aid of Japan.
Moscow and Tokyo maintains a territorial dispute because of some of the Kuriles, which are in Russian hands since the Second World War. Tokyo believes his southern islands of Habomai, Itu-rup (Etorofu), Kunashir and Shikotan are theirs and included in the prefecture of Hokkaido. Philippines: The Government banned beaches warned people that the waves could reach one meter and urged her not to go to the beaches to watch the phenomenon.
The first waves reached the northeast coast of the main island of Luzon, and two hours later arrived in Mindanao. The measured height ranged from 30 centimeters to a meter. Renato Solidum, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said that, initially, there had been no casualties or damage.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 Filipinos living and working in the Japanese city of Sendai, one of the towns closest to the epicenter. Philippine authorities also put on alert to guard and asked all vessels to stay in port until the danger passes. Taiwan lifted the tsunami alert came to the eastern and northeastern coast of the island, but the waves just had a height of 10 centimeters, 50 centimeters instead of the initially expected, and produced no damage, officials said.
Then the alert was raised because they did not expect new waves. Indonesia: the memory of 2004 Earthquake in Japan has brought to the memory of the Indonesians the memory of the 170,000 dead, 230,000 total, which occurred in this country, the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Indian Ocean recorded in 2004.
Jakarta said it had been a small tsunami in the North Sulawesi and Maluku islands, and had then raised the alarm. New Zealand: waves of less than one meter Civil Defence services in New Zealand issued a tsunami alert, but said they did not expect as to constitute a hazard. "Historical experience and calculation models indicate that the highest incidence, a wave of less than one meter in the coast-line will occur along the coasts of central and northern North Island," they said.
Australia: alarm off Officials said Australia would not be affected, so that an alert had been issued. The islands of Palau, where it was feared the arrival of tsunami waves were not affected eventually. China: reaching out to Japan The government raised the alert after Taiwan and the U.S.
territory of Guam were told that the waves had passed over. Beijing offered his assistance to Tokyo, and said he had ready a rescue team. 
Initially, experts had warned of the possibility of waves up to two meters in Hawaii, after which devastated the Japanese port of Sendai earthquake reached ten meters. The fears, however, were dispelled as the day wore on and after the first tsunami waves hit the islands of Kauai and Oahu, Hawaii, with reduced strength.
According to Gerard Fryer, the Tsunami Warning Center Pacific, the highest peak recorded in the first wave arrived in the Hawaiian island of Kauai was one meter, while some parts of Big Island and Maui experienced flooding when waves of 2 meters hit the coast. Despite warnings from the authorities asking for the public to stay away from the beaches and ports, in anticipation of an unusual rise in sea level, the U.S.
said the five victims, onlookers who came to see firsthand the announced arrival of the tsunami. Four of them were rescued by rescue teams in Oregon, while one remains missing in northern California, where he was declared a state of emergency for four counties with numerous damage in ports and beaches.
Around five o'clock the Spanish, the U.S. Agency for Oceans (NOAA) canceled a tsunami warning for the states of Oregon and Washington, in the U.S., and the Canadian province of British Columbia. Only small waves in Mexico After Hawaii, the tsunami reached the Latin American territory to Mexico, where waves were recorded only 70 inches on the coast, according to President Felipe Calderón.
The president said that the first and the second wave arrived in Mexico along the coast of Baja California, northwest of the country, and its size did not exceed the level of high tide. " After Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua suspended the notice to the end of the afternoon (at around three o'clock in Spain), after the authorities found that the effect was limited to a nearly imperceptible waves in the Pacific coast.
Ecuador and Chile Alerts The alert was also raised in Ecuador, where about six o'clock in the afternoon (one o'clock in Spain) the tsunami reached the Galapagos Islands, located about 1,000 kilometers from the continent and the sea retreated 30 meters and flooded urban areas in the town of San Cristobal, according to President Rafael Correa.
Were evacuated 240,000 people residing in coastal areas of the country and the Galapagos. "Returned the water flooded the population and still coming in," Bush said. "Everything is prepared in the Galapagos. There is no risk of human lives," said Correa, who said that yes there will be destruction of property "because he entered the water hard." Later, in Chile, which suffered a devastating tsunami after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake of 27 February 2010, the government raised the alert level alarm preventive coastlines across the mainland, by detecting the level of Tues 54 inches fell on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean, 3,500 kilometers of continental Chile.
"We need the public to join us in waiting. It is better to be prudent reckless", said Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter. The government also ordered the preventive evacuation of the flooded areas around the mainland coast, which extends over 4,000 kilometers. The first wave arrived in the evening (local time) on the coast of Peru had between 15 and 40 inches high, despite which the authorities stated that they will continue monitoring in anticipation of the next wave may be more intense.
In Colombia, for fear of the authorities that there would be a strong wave warning was issued for Pacific coast, which meant no evacuation order. Apart from the western Pacific coast, coastal areas worldwide hansufrido a greater or lesser extent the effects of Japanese earthquake. Russia: 11,000 evacuated The tsunami was particularly the Kuril Islands, Rodrigo Fernandez reports from Moscow.
The waves were between one and three meters. On the island of Shikotan had its maximum height, while the Kushana reached two meters. The Russians, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, were prepared and Tsunami Warning Center gave the warning in time, nine minutes before the arrival of the waves, so the 11,000 people who were at risk areas had time to take refuge in the candidate locations for these cases.
Alexandr Joroshavin governor of the province of Sakhalin, which owns the Kuril archipelago, said "the situation is totally under control." Joroshavin explained that thousands of people were evacuated immediately after the earthquake in the northeastern coast of Japan and added that ships sailing in the waters of the danger zone were told that they went to sea.
Meteorological Institute said the tsunami waves also reached the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin and Primorye, but none of them caused major damage or casualties. The tsunami warning was lifted in the Kuril Islands after the passing of the third wave. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered Sergey Shoigu, Emergency Situations Minister, to prepare proposals to come to the aid of Japan.
Moscow and Tokyo maintains a territorial dispute because of some of the Kuriles, which are in Russian hands since the Second World War. Tokyo believes his southern islands of Habomai, Itu-rup (Etorofu), Kunashir and Shikotan are theirs and included in the prefecture of Hokkaido. Philippines: The Government banned beaches warned people that the waves could reach one meter and urged her not to go to the beaches to watch the phenomenon.
The first waves reached the northeast coast of the main island of Luzon, and two hours later arrived in Mindanao. The measured height ranged from 30 centimeters to a meter. Renato Solidum, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said that, initially, there had been no casualties or damage.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 Filipinos living and working in the Japanese city of Sendai, one of the towns closest to the epicenter. Philippine authorities also put on alert to guard and asked all vessels to stay in port until the danger passes. Taiwan lifted the tsunami alert came to the eastern and northeastern coast of the island, but the waves just had a height of 10 centimeters, 50 centimeters instead of the initially expected, and produced no damage, officials said.
Then the alert was raised because they did not expect new waves. Indonesia: the memory of 2004 Earthquake in Japan has brought to the memory of the Indonesians the memory of the 170,000 dead, 230,000 total, which occurred in this country, the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Indian Ocean recorded in 2004.
Jakarta said it had been a small tsunami in the North Sulawesi and Maluku islands, and had then raised the alarm. New Zealand: waves of less than one meter Civil Defence services in New Zealand issued a tsunami alert, but said they did not expect as to constitute a hazard. "Historical experience and calculation models indicate that the highest incidence, a wave of less than one meter in the coast-line will occur along the coasts of central and northern North Island," they said.
Australia: alarm off Officials said Australia would not be affected, so that an alert had been issued. The islands of Palau, where it was feared the arrival of tsunami waves were not affected eventually. China: reaching out to Japan The government raised the alert after Taiwan and the U.S.
territory of Guam were told that the waves had passed over. Beijing offered his assistance to Tokyo, and said he had ready a rescue team.
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