New Delhi: A tsunami warning, issued after the eruption of a volcano in the waters of the Pacific island state of Tonga, has been cancelled for all regions of Japan since the threat has passed.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the warning was cancelled at 14:00 local time (05:00 GMT). On Saturday, the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano sparked tsunami alerts across the South Pacific. The eruption became the latest in a series of the ongoing explosive eruptions from the volcano.
Later in that day, the Japan Meteorological Agency said it expected surge waves of up to 3 meters (10 feet) to reach the Amami and Tokara Islands, both part of the Ryukyu archipelago stretching southwest to Taiwan. The evacuation order was issued for at least 230,000 people in eight prefectures of the country.
Following a massive undersea volcanic eruption in the island country of Tonga, Tsunami was observed in the southern Japanese island of Amami-Oshima and many other places along the country’s Pacific coast on Sunday.
Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings at 12:15 am on Sunday for the Amami Islands and the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, reported NHK World. The agency said that a 120-centimetre tsunami has been observed in Kominato on Amami-Oshima Island.
Dozens of tsunami up to 90 centimeters have been observed along Japan’s Pacific coast from the southern island of Kyushu to the northern island of Hokkaido, reported NHK World.
