Overview

• USGS revised the quake’s strength from 8.0 to 8.7 and located it 19.3 km deep about 125 km east-southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
• A 3–4 meter tsunami struck Kamchatka’s coast, flooding shoreline communities and prompting evacuations in Severo-Kurilsk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
• Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued a warning for up to 3 meter waves along its Pacific coast and ordered evacuations from Hokkaido down to Wakayama
• The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center extended alerts to Alaska’s Aleutians and Hawaii and issued watches for the U.S. West Coast and Pacific islands
• Authorities report no confirmed injuries, are surveying building damage and caution that aftershocks up to magnitude 7.5 could strike in the coming weeks