Satellite image of underwater volcano eruption in TongaMOSCOW, January 15Tsunami warning announced in Kuril Islands after eruption of an underwater volcano off the Tonga Islands, a spokesman for emergency services told RIA Novosti. «The Tsunami Center of the FBGU Sakhalin UGMS» until 21:00 on January 15 announced a warning about a possible approach to the Kuril Islands of a tsunami wave with a height of no more than 0.2 meters (for Japan — 0 3 meters) as a result of the eruption of an underwater volcano in Tonga,» the source said. There is no threat to the population and territory of Russia. We have already alerted two ports in the South Kuril and Kuril urban districts.
