Senkaku Island is an archipelago in the East China Sea. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 15A tsunami threat up to three meters high has been announced in Japan, the Japan Meteorological Administration said.According to it, a warning of the threat is in effect for the Japanese islands of Amami and Tokara in the Pacific Ocean.»Approximate maximum tsunami wave height: 3 meters,» the ministry's website said in a statement. It is noted that waves up to one meter high can reach the entire Pacific coast of Japan, in the western part of Kagoshima Prefecture, the wave can be 0.2 meters high. Earlier media reported about 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. U.S. states on the west coast of the country later issued warnings of the possibility of a tsunami caused by a volcanic eruption in Tonga.
