(Update 3) Tsunamis Observed in Japan after Kamchatka Quake

   Tokyo, July 30 (Jiji Press)--Tsunamis reached Japan on Wednesday morning after a powerful earthquake struck near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula the same day.
   By 11:30 a.m., tsunamis of 40 centimeters were observed in the town of Hiroo in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido and the city of Hachinohe in the northeastern prefecture of Aomori. The Hokkaido city of Nemuro, and the Iwate Prefecture city of Ofunato and the Fukushima Prefecture city of Iwaki, both in northeastern Japan, recorded 30-centimeter tsunamis.
   The Japan Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings at 9:40 a.m. to many areas facing the Pacific Ocean, including Hokkaido, saying that the tsunami height may reach up to 3 meters. The tsunami warnings were upgraded from tsunami advisories that were issued shortly past 8:35 a.m., after the earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 8.7, occurred near the Russian peninsula, located northeast of Hokkaido, around 8:25 a.m. the same day
   Subject to the tsunami warnings are Pacific coastal areas of Hokkaido to the Kii Peninsula in western Japan and Tokyo's Izu and Ogasawara islands.
   The agency newly issued tsunami advisories to locations including areas facing the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan in Hokkaido, the Sea of Japan side of Aomori, Tokyo Bay areas, Pacific coastal areas of the Shikoku western and Kyushu southwestern regions, and coastal areas of the Amami region of southwestern Japan and the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa.

(2025/07/30-12:31)

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