{"id":73171,"date":"2025-07-30T21:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-alerts-from-japan-to-the-us-after-earthquake-sparks-warnings-across-pacific-video-report"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:13:15","slug":"tsunami-alerts-from-japan-to-the-us-after-earthquake-sparks-warnings-across-pacific-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73171","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami alerts from Japan to the US after earthquake sparks warnings across Pacific \u2013 video report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful 8.8-magnitude <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/earthquakes\">earthquake<\/a> triggered a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/tsunamis\">tsunami<\/a> warnings and evacuation orders stretching across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\">US<\/a> west coast and parts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pacific-islands\">Pacific<\/a>, after the shallow quake hit near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/russia\">Russia\u2019s<\/a> Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, with reports of waves up to 4 metres high in the remote region. The earthquake, one of the strongest recorded, struck at a depth of 19.3km (12 miles) and was centred 126km (80 miles) south-east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city along Russia\u2019s Avacha Bay, the US Geological Survey said<\/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 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/29\/honolulu-tsunami-preparation-russia-earthquake\">Hawaii tsunami warning downgraded and no major damage after first waves hit islands<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-alert-mass-evacuations-pacific-japan-guam-hawaii\">\u2018Prepared for a long stay\u2019: tsunami alert triggers mass evacuations across Pacific<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-alerts-what-we-know-so-far-warnings-pacific-japan-us-hawaii-california\">Pacific tsunami alerts: what we know so far about the warnings stretching from Japan to the US<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-alerts-from-japan-to-the-us-after-earthquake-sparks-warnings-across-pacific-video-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake triggered a series of tsunami warnings and evacuation orders stretching across Japan, the US west coast and parts of the Pacific, after the shallow quake hit near Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, with repor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,263,1456,88,1189,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-hawaii","category-japan","category-tsunamis","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\/73171","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73172,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73171\/revisions\/73172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}