Tsunami warning center cancels alert for HawaiiJAYMES SONGAUDREY McAVOY
In Alaska, a dozen small communities along the Aleutian Island chain were on alert, but there were no reports of damage from a wave just over 5 feet. Officials in two coastal Washington counties used an automated phone alert system, phoning residents on the coast and in low-lying areas and...
SYDNEY, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii has issued an alert for the Pacific after a powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Sunday. The undersea earthquake struck 41 km northwest of Panguna on the Papua New Guinea autonomous island of Bou...
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The agency lifted all tsunami advisories for Japan around 9 a.m. 该机构在上午9点左右解除了对日本的所有海啸警报。 The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii also issued an alert but later posted that the danger had passed. 夏威夷的太平洋海啸预警中心也发布了警报,但后来发布消息称危险已经过去。
"Sea level readings indicate a tsunami was generated," the Hawaii-based Pacific warning centre said after the 8.0 quake, before lifting its tsunami alert for several island nations. Lata Hospital director of nursing Augustine Bilve said some patients were evacuated to higher ground to prepare for...
Figure 1. 1946 tsunami at Hilo, Hawaii (Pacific Tsunami Museum). Wave height may be judged from the height of the trees. The water level on shore can rise by several meters. In extreme cases, water level can rise to more than 20 m for tsunamis of distant origin and over 30 m for ...
gist, was in his office, issuing an alert for the At the time, the Indian Ocean had no tsunami he knew was probably on its way. tsunami warning system. By 2005, the Japan Tsunami warnings are a way of life for coastal Meteorological Agency in Tokyo and the communities, but five years...
Santa Cruz, Calif., city manager Elizabeth Smith told CNN that there was some “minor flooding” at the city’s harbor and that there is a “multi-jurisdictional team” monitoring the surges on Saturday after an underwater volcano eruption near Tonga triggered a tsunami alert for the western ...
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