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The U.S. Tsunami Warning System, which initially warned of waves of up to 3 metres (10 feet) above the usual high tide level, later said there was no longer a tsunami threat. Evacuations were ...
The U.S. Tsunami Warning System had initially warned of waves of up to 3 metres (10 feet) above the usual high tide level. The quake, which struck at 10:37 p.m. (1437 GMT) on Saturday, was at a ...
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center initially said that based on the magnitude and location, it expected tsunami waves to hit the southern Philippines and parts of Indonesia, Palau and Malaysia ...
The BMKG issued a tsunami warning based on seismographic data. [30] An alert was broadcast from radios and mosque loudspeakers on the mainland, prompting thousands to flee to higher ground. [ 11 ] It was later cancelled, but officials said that a tsunami warning system installed following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami had failed ...
Tsunami warning system in East Timor. Regional (or local) warning system centers use seismic data about nearby recent earthquakes to determine if there is a possible local threat of a tsunami. Such systems are capable of issuing warnings to the general public (via public address systems and sirens) in less than 15 minutes.
A tsunami warning was issued within eight minutes after the tremor for coastal regions of the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Guam, and Japan, as well as for the island nations of Palau, Yap, and Northern Mariana. A tsunami watch was at the time in effect for much of Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, Hawaii, and the Pacific coast of Russia.
The last tsunami warning in the San Francisco Bay Area followed a 9.1 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan that sparked a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 ...
Tsunami waves reported to be as high as 5 metres (16 feet) were reported to have struck Barangays Martilo, Pisong, and Magtalisay in La Libertad. Coastal areas on the eastern seaboard of Negros Oriental from San Jose to Vallehermoso , and on the western side of Cebu from Badian to Barili were also reported to have been affected by the tsunami ...