Jul 30, 2025 | Waves of over 1m have been recorded near the California-Oregon border, according to the National Tsunami Warning Center.
And French Polynesian authorities have increased the maximum wave height prediction for the island of Nuku Hiva from 2.2m to 4m.
The waves were triggered by a massive 8.8 earthquake which hit near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula at about 11:25am local time (00:25am BST) on Wednesday.
Meanwhile Japan has downgraded the tsunami threat level in some areas after earlier telling 1.9 million people to evacuate.
The tsunami warning covering Hawaii has also been downgraded to an advisory level.
Evacuation orders are still in force in countries as far apart as Colombia and New Zealand.
Jun 8, 2019 | In the far-flung reaches of Siberian Russia there’s a place unlike any other on earth. A place nine times zones from Moscow. A place so far east it’s almost west. A place called Kamchatka, the snowbound Eden. One hundred thousand lakes; 300 geysers; 414 glaciers; 100 volcanoes all crammed into a peninsula the size of California. But it’s also a nuclear no-go zone. Off-limits to the world for most of the 20th century. In fact, more Americans have been into outer space than have crossed Kamchatka in the last hundred years. It’s into this unforgiving icebox cold corner of the world that David Adams goes in search of the last of the Itelman, the semi-legendary wild men of Siberia’s Far East.
This documentary is not suitable for people with weak stomachs. I have myself had to look away on several occasions as watching people eat raw meat from freshly-slaughtered reindeer is not something I find easy to watch! It’s a very interesting documentary, though. – Mark
