Tsunami Warning/Advisory From Asia to South America, July 29, 2025

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There has been a major earthquake in the Pacific Ocean near the Russian Far East.


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There are tsunami warnings and advisories for coastal areas of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, and Hawaii. There are or were warnings/advisories for some other countries, notably Japan and, of course, Russia itself.

Any tsunami to hit the West Coast would likely arrive at about midnight tonight, Pacific Daylight Time.

ETA: The earthquake registered 8.8 on the Richter Scale, which is huge. :eek:
 
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Live coverage of the first waves hitting Japan - the first waves of 30-40cm being shown on the screen right now might not be the biggest (which could be 3-4m):

First waves expected to hit Hawai'i at Hanalei in Kaua'i at 7.10pm local time, which coincides with high tide:
 
Living on Vancouver Island, this is my first affected tsunami warning. So, when I saw this thread, I kinda freaked.

Fortunately for me, I live on the east coast of the Island and it does not appear I live in a tsunami zone. We have an office in Ucluelet so hopefully they are all okay.

Victoria FSUers, hope you’re all good!!
 
We're in the Tsunami Zone, but our next door neighbor is out of it and he already came over to say we could camp out with him if the waters rise. :p I didn't hear the Tsunami siren which already went off, but I got the warning on my phone that said to get to high ground. We should be fine, but the highway south of town will likely flood as it is at sea level and typically floods during King Tides or surf surges. All the boats in the harbor are heading out to sea. Just out of curiosity I looked up our house's elevation and it is 49 feet above sea level. I think a previous tsunami here went to 44 feet.
 
We're in the Tsunami Zone, but our next door neighbor is out of it and he already came over to say we could camp out with him if the waters rise. :p I didn't hear the Tsunami siren which already went off, but I got the warning on my phone that said to get to high ground. We should be fine, but the highway south of town will likely flood as it is at sea level and typically floods during King Tides or surf surges. All the boats in the harbor are heading out to sea. Just out of curiosity I looked up our house's elevation and it is 49 feet above sea level. I think a previous tsunami here went to 44 feet.
Mr Skateycat doesn't quite know what to do with himself! One minute he says I should just tell you to leave your arm floaties by your bed and you'll be fine, and next he says he'll feel bad if the tsunami goes to 50 feet. LOLOLOLOLOL
 
Praying for you @SkateSand! The 2011 Sendai quake caused a minor tsunami in your area. I remember seeing videos from the Oregon communities just north of you at the time.

7-foot waves have hit Midway Atoll in the last 30-45 minutes. There are reports that Oprah Winfrey has refused to open her private road on Maui that would allow locals much faster access to higher ground - 10 min drive vs nearly an hour from the map I saw on X, so instead locals are stuck in a major traffic jam. And there's video coming out of Honolulu with traffic jams also. Tsunami sirens are going off in several videos I've seen already.

Here's a meteorologist's take on the waves at Midway.


ETA - US Coast Guard has ordered an evacuation of ALL commercial vessels from every port in Hawaii.


ETA2 - Oprah Winfrey's private road from Wailea inland to higher ground has been opened.
 
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Meanwhile Shanghai is grappling with the twin threats of a tropical cyclone and a tsunami, with more than 280,000 people relocated from the city, and hundreds of flights and ferry services halted on Wednesday.
:eek: :scream:
 
We're still under an advisory, not a warning. Plus we're about 85 mi above sea level so I don't think we're in the tsunami zone.

I've lived here 31 years and never had any tsunami advisories until a few years ago and now we've had two.
 
We're still under an advisory, not a warning. Plus we're about 85 mi above sea level so I don't think we're in the tsunami zone.

I've lived here 31 years and never had any tsunami advisories until a few years ago and now we've had two.
Miles or feet? 😉
 
I was wondering if it was better to be in open ocean or in port on a boat during a tsunami. A friend has spent the last year on her sailboat with her family and just crossed the Pacific and made it to Vancouver Island on the way home to the Sunshine Coast.
 
The city has evacuated all the RV parks in the harbor area and recommended the RVs to be moved to the Home Depot, Walmart, and the high school parking lots. Someone noted that all three of those locations are considered to be in the Tsunami Zone. The city spokesperson explained they don't expect a worst case scenario, which the Tsunami Zone encompasses. I'm sure that means my house will be fine since I'm closer to the edge of the zone than those evacuation locations. :p
 
I was wondering if it was better to be in open ocean or in port on a boat during a tsunami. A friend has spent the last year on her sailboat with her family and just crossed the Pacific and made it to Vancouver Island on the way home to the Sunshine Coast.
It's better to be out over deep water so that you and your boat aren't carried by the powerful surge against a dock or land.
 
I was wondering if it was better to be in open ocean or in port on a boat during a tsunami. A friend has spent the last year on her sailboat with her family and just crossed the Pacific and made it to Vancouver Island on the way home to the Sunshine Coast.
Definitely better to be on the open ocean, which is why our boats left the harbor for the open sea tonight. The last two tsunamis we had here destroyed all the boats left in the harbor.
 
Miles or feet? 😉
Feet. But also about 18 miles from the Bay.

One map I looked at said we weren't in the zone. This one was from the City. But the one on Google Maps says we are. It also has some weird triangle in the border that makes no sense. So I'll stick with the City's borders.
 
I was wondering if it was better to be in open ocean or in port on a boat during a tsunami. A friend has spent the last year on her sailboat with her family and just crossed the Pacific and made it to Vancouver Island on the way home to the Sunshine Coast.
It's better to be out over deep water so that you and your boat aren't carried by the powerful surge against a dock or land.
Definitely better to be on the open ocean, which is why our boats left the harbor for the open sea tonight. The last two tsunamis we had here destroyed all the boats left in the harbor.
Yup. Here's video from the damage caused by the relatively minor tsunami that hit the far northern California and southern Oregon coast in 2011.

Brookings, Oregon -
Crescent City, California -
 

The Klyuchevskoy volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s far east has started erupting after Wednesday’s powerful earthquake in the Pacific, Russian state news agency RIA reported, according to Reuters.

The massive quake struck on Wednesday morning in Russia, generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13ft) on the country’s east coast, damaging buildings and prompting evacuation warnings in the region

(((((People in Kamchatka)))))
 
Woke up to news that we are still under an advisory. Also, admonished not to go down to the beach to check things out. We are seeing what I think of as sloshing. Which is a big wave that goes back and forth. Except it's in the ocean and not a bathtub. It's not a tsunami but it can still cause damage and death.
 
Woke up to news that we are still under an advisory. Also, admonished not to go down to the beach to check things out. We are seeing what I think of as sloshing. Which is a big wave that goes back and forth. Except it's in the ocean and not a bathtub. It's not a tsunami but it can still cause damage and death.
Actually, that's what a tsunami is. It isn't just one major wave but a series of waves sloshing up against the shore - the water recedes & then returns with a larger wave against the wall of the bathtub/shore until the energy dissipates and the water calms again.
 

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