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.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 shook parts of Northern California, temporarily forcing a tsunami warning that led to evacuations in some coastal areas of Northern California and the San Francisco Bay.
The heightened alert was issued late on Wednesday after the 725-meter-high volcano had two large eruptions earlier in the day, spewing a column of ash 3,000 metres into the sky.
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Several people are feared trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
According to the USGS, tsunami waves as high as 1-3 meters are expected to hit Philippines.
