Following the earthquakes, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued an advisory urging residents in coastal areas to evacuate to higher ground until further notice.
Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos has directed government agencies to immediately evacuate people in the coastal areas threatened by a tsunami after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Davao Oriental province in the southern Philippines on Friday morning.
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake is no ordinary event. It is the sort of seismic jolt that history remembers, one capable of reshaping coastlines and triggering tsunamis that level towns.
According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, the waves that reached Hawaii were 1.2 meters tall.
Tsunami hit several coastal areas of Russia and Japan following a massive earthquake of magnitude 8.7 off East Coast of Russian Kamchatka Peninsula.
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck the Caribbean Sea, triggering tsunami warnings for multiple countries, US monitoring agencies reported.
Japan on Monday evening warned of a possible tsunami following an earthquake of around 6.9 magnitude, that struck the southwestern region of the country.
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the deadliest tsunami in human history.
Dr. T. Srinivasa Kumar is a seasoned expert with over 25 years of experience in ocean observation, information systems, and advisory services, including the development of tsunami and storm surge early warning systems.
Norman Cousins, an American journalist and author, once said, “History is a vast early warning system.”
