LAST UPDATE: 22.24
A tsunami has hit Japan late tonight, prompting the National Weather Service to warn of three-meter highs following a volcanic eruption in the Tongan archipelago on Friday.
The agency said a 1.2-meter tsunami hit the southern island of Amami Oshima at around 23.55 local time (16.55 Greek time) on Saturday, before smaller waves were observed in other areas along the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Japan.
The east coast of Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, as well as the Kochi and Wakayama prefectures (southwest), also recorded a 0.9-meter high after midnight, the meteorological service said.
The national public television network NHK shaped its program by having direct connections from the specific port cities, calling on the residents to move away from their homes and go to areas with sufficient altitude, without anything unusual in the images it transmitted.
In a televised address to reporters around midnight, the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that it had detected a change in tide, which was almost one meter higher after 23.00 local time, resulting in a tsunami alert. “We urge residents to take action,” an official said in a statement.
SOURCE: AMPE
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