{"id":73152,"date":"2025-07-30T10:06:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-warning-watch-alert-japan-guam-pacific-russia-earthquake"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:18:29","slug":"tsunami-warning-for-japan-and-the-pacific-after-powerful-earthquake-off-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73152","title":{"rendered":"Many countries downgrade tsunami alerts after powerful earthquake off Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impact of water surges less than initially feared after quake of 8.8 magnitude hit near Russia\u2019s Kamchatka peninsula<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\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\">Tsunami warning \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded triggered a series of tsunami warnings and evacuations across much of the Pacific, although many governments later downgraded their warnings after the impact of the water surges was less than initially feared.<\/p>\n<p>The shallow quake hit off eastern Russia and there were reports of waves up to 4 metres high in some remote regions in the Pacific. Later on Wednesday, the Russian Geophysical Survey said the quake had also led to a violent eruption of the Klyuchevskoy volcano, which is near the epicentre.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-warning-watch-alert-japan-guam-pacific-russia-earthquake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impact of water surges less than initially feared after quake of 8.8 magnitude hit near Russia\u2019s Kamchatka peninsulaTsunami warning \u2013 live updatesOne of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded triggered a series of tsunami warnings and evacuations acro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4872,"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":[41,263,1456,88,874,419,1189,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-hawaii","category-japan","category-pacific-islands","category-russia","category-tsunamis","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73152","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\/4872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73174,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73152\/revisions\/73174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}