Two people drowned off a beach in northern Peru, the local civil defense authority reported on Sunday, after unusually high waves were recorded in several coastal areas following Saturday's eruption of an underwater volcano in Tonga in the Pacific Ocean.
The death of two people by drowning occurred on Saturday on a beach located in the Lambayeque region, Peru's National Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci) said in a statement.
The underwater volcano off Tonga erupted on Saturday, prompting tsunami warnings and evacuation orders in Japan and causing huge waves on several South Pacific islands, where images on social media show waves crashing against homes on the shores.
More than 20 Peruvian ports were temporarily closed as a precautionary measure amid warnings that the volcano was causing abnormally high waves, Indeci said.
The Peruvian police said on Twitter that the two victims were found dead by officers from a Naylamp beach police station. The tweet said "the waves were abnormal" in the area and that it had been declared unsuitable for bathers.
TV images showed several homes and businesses flooded by seawater in coastal areas in northern and central Peru.
The Peruvian Navy had reported that a tsunami alert was ruled out for the Pacific Coast country.
In Japan, hundreds of thousands of people were advised to evacuate on Sunday as waves of more than a meter hit coastal areas, public broadcaster NHK reported.
The footage on social media showed large waves crashing into coastal homes in several South Pacific islands.
Reporting by Marco Aquino, writing by Hugh Bronstein. Editing by Jane Merriman
Rowan Cocoan The Chilean emergency agency put out an alert early on that is broadcast on all cell phones in the alert areas. In addition, navy and police personnel patrolled and ordered all stragglers and non-believers from those danger zones. Result --- no casualties, only minor property damage.
Chileans remember the socialist (now UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) President Bachelet and her failure to decide on a warning and evacuate order on 27 February 2010 after the 8.8 megaquake. My nearby friend here on the coast (I was safely high-up in an apartment on a hill) heard the firetrucks and police vehicles circulating around announcing on their loudspeakers in Spanish saying "there is no risk of tsunami" after they had already moved to high ground. Of course, reality proved otherwise. In my digs, 5 persons died and 200 summer beach cabins destroyed 2 kms. below the hill I live on.
Rowan Cocoan The Chilean emergency agency put out an alert early on that is broadcast on all cell phones in the alert areas. In addition, navy and police personnel patrolled and ordered all stragglers and non-believers from those danger zones. Result --- no casualties, only minor property damage.
Chileans remember the socialist (now UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) President Bachelet and her failure to decide on a warning and evacuate order on 27 February 2010 after the 8.8 megaquake. My nearby friend here on the coast (I was safely high-up in an apartment on a hill) heard the firetrucks and police vehicles circulating around announcing on their loudspeakers in Spanish saying "there is no risk of tsunami" after they had already moved to high ground. Of course, reality proved otherwise. In my digs, 5 persons died and 200 summer beach cabins destroyed 2 kms. below the hill I live on in the resultant tsunami surges. About 500 of the 800 death total from that disaster was from the tsunami.
I've been in ONE earthquake. I think it was in April 1981. I was in LA on the 19th floor of a 20 story building and that thing was leaning and lurching (it felt like being in a boat with big swells) like crazy. I looked down the hallway and it was shifting from a rectangle to a parallelogram right and lefts. Was a strange feeling. Also, some of us could literally hear (and see) the windows flexing and making an ultrasonic noise that a few of us could hear and we were telling people 'get away from the windows!' etc. As S Wright said about weird high pitched noises they're dogs blowing human whistles.
And all that was was a 3.6 located about 20 miles away from us out in Santa Monica bay. I can't imagine what an 8.8 would feel like! How did it feel? Wow. Just wow.
You keep safe and keep reporting in if you can or have any insights etc. (If you desire to of course.)
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