{"id":73146,"date":"2025-07-30T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-alert-pacific-islands-japan-russia-magnitude-8-earthquake-follow-live-updates"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:34:12","slug":"first-waves-hit-japan-as-us-widens-tsunami-warnings-after-magnitude-8-7-earthquake-off-russia-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73146","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami updates: Easter and Gal\u00e1pagos Islands evacuate coastal areas as tsunami warnings rattle Pacific \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities ordered evacuations on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pacific-islands\">Pacific islands<\/a> of Ecuador and Chile; warnings downgraded elsewhere after 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia coast<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/29\/honolulu-tsunami-preparation-russia-earthquake\">Major tsunami no longer expected to hit Hawaii but coasts remain hazardous<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/strongest-earthquakes-ever-recorded\">What are the strongest earthquakes ever recorded?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/how-have-you-been-impacted-by-the-tsunami-across-the-pacific\">How have you been affected by the tsunami across the Pacific?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TEPCO<\/strong> (Tokyo Electric Power Company), operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant that suffered a triple meltdown triggered by the 2011 tsunami, has announced that discharge of treated water contaminated by the disaster has been suspended until today\u2019s tsunami warnings are lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel engaged in the ongoing decommissioning work at the plant have also been temporarily evacuated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-alert-pacific-islands-japan-russia-magnitude-8-earthquake-follow-live-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities ordered evacuations on Pacific islands of Ecuador and Chile; warnings downgraded elsewhere after 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia coastMajor tsunami no longer expected to hit Hawaii but coasts remain hazardousWhat are the strongest earth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4871,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[263,88,874,419,1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-japan","category-pacific-islands","category-russia","category-tsunamis"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73146"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73178,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73146\/revisions\/73178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}