A magnitude 6.6 earthquake recorded Thursday in the Pacific Ocean south of Japan triggered the activation of a tsunami warning in the Izu Islands, south of Tokyo.
The move took place on Thursday at 11am local time (02am GMT; Wednesday 9pm in Ecuador) about 10 kilometers deep below the seabed and south of the Izu Archipelago, which belongs to Tokyo Prefecture according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
The same organization issued a warning over the prediction that a one-meter high tsunami would hit that island chain about 30 minutes after the earthquake, and urged the population to leave all coastal areas, although it also noted that they should not “risks of damage‘important in them, the agency describes EFE.
Regarding this event, the Oceanographic and Antarctic Institute of the Navy (Inocar) has indicated that the characteristics of the earthquake do not meet the necessary conditions to trigger a tsunami on the continental and island coast of Ecuador, according to the data available are at the observatory. oceanic. (JO)
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Source: Eluniverso
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