image from interactive map by the PTWC showing the location of Saturday's earthquake

M7.0 Earthquake Off Russia Triggers Tsunami Threat, But Not For Hawaiʻi

Big Island Video News

Aug 17, 2024

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HAWAIʻI - The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu says the large quake off the east coast of Kamchatka, Russia did not create a tsunami threat for the State of Hawaiʻi.

(BIVN) – A magnitude-7.0 earthquake off the east coast of Kamchatka, Russia triggered a Tsunami Threat on Saturday morning, but officials determined there was no threat to Hawaiʻi.  

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu said the earthquake, which struck at 9:10 a.m. HST, did not generate a Pacific-wide tsunami. Emergency officials said there is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi.

Initially, hazardous tsunami waves were forecast as a possibility for some coasts of Russia.



At around 10:18 a.m. on Saturday, an updated message from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported that there was no longer a tsunami threat to any locations in the Pacific due to the earthquake. 

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