Overview

• The USGS recorded an 8.8-magnitude earthquake at 12 miles depth, centered 78 miles southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
• Regional authorities reported tsunami waves up to four metres on Kamchatka’s coast, prompting evacuations in Severo-Kurilsk and the Sakhalin region.
• Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued warnings from Hokkaido to Wakayama Prefecture, forecasting waves up to three metres and ordering coastal evacuations.
• Tsunami waves struck Hokkaido, Hawaii, parts of Alaska and the US West Coast with only minor injuries reported and no fatalities.
• All workers at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were evacuated as a precaution and no abnormalities have been detected at the facility.