Arab Weather - Sinan Khalaf - A short while ago, sirens sounded in the coastal areas of the American Alaska Peninsula, warning of a tsunami, following a devastating earthquake of more than 8 degrees on the Richter scale.
#BREAKING : The 8.2 earthquake is the largest to strike the United States since 1965
Warning sirens are now blaring along the Alaskan coastline as waves approach.
The Tsunami Warning System is still calculating possible further risks to the Hawaiian Islands pic.twitter.com/rzzVI4txUD— RAWSALERTS (@rawsalerts) July 29, 2021
And the US authorities published a map of the spread of possible tsunami waves in the Pacific Ocean.
#UPDATE More video coming out from Alaska with multiple reports of tsunami sirens blearing off
After a magnitude 8.2 #earthquake the national USGS Has issued a #tsunami warning for parts of Alaska residents should immediately go to higher grounds now pic.twitter.com/7ATKawkIqc
— RAWSALERTS (@rawsalerts) July 29, 2021
According to Al-Kharga, the tsunami may reach the coasts of Russia, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand within a period ranging between 6 and 15 hours.
The US Tsunami Warning System, which estimated the magnitude of the earthquake at 8.1, issued a tsunami warning for the US territory of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Source: agencies
#BREAKING : Tsunami warning issued along Alaskan coastline following massive 8.2 earthquake
The US Tsunami Warning System has calculated a tsunami moving towards the Southern Alaskan coastline. Waves are expected to arrive within an hour. Seek higher ground! pic.twitter.com/3K9RLjPI6d
— RAWSALERTS (@rawsalerts) July 29, 2021
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