How many people did Japan evacuate while getting ready for the Tsunami that hit Chile and the Pacific?”
SENDAI, Japan (Reuters) – Tsunami waves of up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) hit far-flung Pacific regions from the Russian far east and Japan to New Zealand’s Chatham Islands on Sunday after a powerful earthquake struck Chile, but there were no reports of injuries or serious damage. Hundreds of thousands of residents in Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines and Russia’s Kamchatka were told to evacuate after one of the world’s strongest quakes in a century hit Chile on Saturday, killing more than 300 people. Japanese officials had warned that tsunami waves of 3 meters or more could strike the country’s Pacific coast and ordered or advised around 630,000 households to evacuate. “I feel the power of nature. The tsunami is coming from thousands of kilometers away,” said Akio Yone, a 70-year-old retired fisherman, as he watched from high ground on a chilly, windy evening on the outskirts of Sendai, northern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) put the country’s highest tsunami at 1.2 meters
SENDAI, Japan (Reuters) – Tsunami waves of up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) hit far-flung Pacific regions from the Russian far east and Japan to New Zealand’s Chatham Islands on Sunday after a powerful earthquake struck Chile, but there were no reports of injuries or serious damage. Hundreds of thousands of residents in Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines and Russia’s Kamchatka were told to evacuate after one of the world’s strongest quakes in a century hit Chile on Saturday, killing more than 300 people. Japanese officials had warned that tsunami waves of 3 meters or more could strike the country’s Pacific coast and ordered or advised around 630,000 households to evacuate. “I feel the power of nature. The tsunami is coming from thousands of kilometers away,” said Akio Yone, a 70-year-old retired fisherman, as he watched from high ground on a chilly, windy evening on the outskirts of Sendai, northern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) put the country’s highest tsunami at 1.2 meters
Japan evacuated 320,000 people Sunday as a tsunami triggered by Chile’s earthquake hit its Pacific coast, but fears of destructive waves ebbed across the rest of the Pacific’s vast “Ring of Fire”. Russia cancelled its tsunami warning after only minor waves reached the Kamchatka peninsula, while doughty swimmers and surfers in Australia defied official warnings and flocked to the beach. Warning sirens had wailed as about 50 countries and territories along an arc stretching from New Zealand to Japan went on alert, five years after the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster that killed more than 220,000 people.
