The Japan Meteorological Agency said a first tsunami wave of about 30cm reached Nemuro on the eastern coast of Hokkaido on Wednesday morning.
Tsunami warning sirens blared Tuesday in Honolulu and people were told to move to higher ground.
Caption: In this image taken from a video released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, rescuers inspect a kindergarten damaged by an earthquake in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)
The earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula was the strongest since 1952, according to the local branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
A tsunami wave has also hit the coastal area of Severo-Kurilsk, the main settlement on Russia’s Kuril Islands in the Pacific, according to the local governor Valery Limarenko.
The US Geological Survey recorded the quake as 8.8 magnitude and said it occurred at a depth of 20.7 kilometers, about 119km away from the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a population of 180,000.
Pictures from a fixed live video camera footage shows a beach before and after people were evacuated following a tsunami warning, in Shirahama, Wakayama prefecture, western Japan (Photo: Kyodo/via Reuters)Cabinets toppled inside homes, mirrors were broken, cars swayed in the street and balconies on buildings shook noticeably. Tass also reported power outages and mobile phone service failures.
The National Tsunami Warning Center, based in Alaska, issued a tsunami warning for parts of the Alaska Aleutian Islands, and a watch for portions of the West Coast, including California, Oregon, and Washington, and Hawaii.
The earthquake appeared to be the strongest anywhere in the world since the March 2011 earthquake off northeast Japan that measured 9.0 magnitude and caused a massive tsunami that set off meltdowns at a Fukushima nuclear power plant.
New Zealand authorities issued warnings of “strong and unusual currents and unpredictable surges” along coastlines throughout the country. The alert by the government emergency management agency said people should move out of the water, off beaches and shore areas, and away from harbors, marinas, rivers and estuaries.
Earlier in July, five powerful quakes — the largest with a magnitude of 7.4 — struck in the sea near Kamchatka.
In November 1952, a magnitude 9.0 quake in Kamchatka caused damage but no reported deaths despite setting off 9.1-metre waves in Hawaii.
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