MOSCOW, Jan 16 The tsunami warning regime in the Sakhalin region has been lifted, press reports A representative of emergency services told RIA Novosti on Saturday that a tsunami threat had been declared in the Kuril Islands after the eruption of an underwater volcano off the Tonga Islands. jpg» /> In Japan, the warning about the threat of a tsunami was removed» As of 15.00 (local time), when reading information from a tide gauge located on the island of Shikotan in the village of Malokurilskoye, it was found that a packet of waves 120-130 centimeters high was approaching the coast, at A packet of waves 20-30 centimeters high approached the island of Kunashir, there was no damage. The warning mode for a possible tsunami was lifted,» the message says. Earlier, the media reported on the eruption of the Hunga-Haapai volcano in the island South Pacific state of Tonga. Local authorities have issued a tsunami warning. A tsunami threat has also been declared in American Samoa, where more than a hundred families have been evacuated from villages on the south side of Sawaii Island due to large waves. Later, US states located on the west coast of the country warned of the possibility of a tsunami caused by a volcanic eruption in Tonga. Japan's tsunami warning was later lifted.
