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Montevideo, October 17th 2025 - 12:02 UTC

Tag: tsunami

  • Friday, August 1st 2025 - 09:01 UTC

    Chile: All tsunami warnings called off

    Boric said he had faced pressure to lower the warning status

    All tsunami threat warnings for Chile were completely canceled after the National Service for Disaster Prevention and Response (Senapred) confirmed Thursday that, based on data from sea level stations and other models, the emergency caused by the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia has officially ended.

  • Thursday, July 31st 2025 - 09:59 UTC

    Only one Chilean region still under tsunami alert

    Other areas were declared under a “precaution” status, and people were advised to stay off the coastlines

    Following an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia, Chile was the most affected country in the Americas by the likelihood of tsunamis. However, by early Thursday, the Government had downgraded its alert for most coastal regions to a state of “precaution” as per recommendations from the National Service for Disaster Prevention and Response (Senapred) and the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA).

  • Wednesday, July 30th 2025 - 10:15 UTC

    Tsunami warnings triggered all across Pacific Ocean

    The waves are expected to reach mainland Chile between 1 and 3 pm

    An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings and alerts across the Pacific. In Chile, the Navy's Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOA) initially issued a preliminary tsunami warning for the Atacama, Coquimbo, and Valparaíso regions, with a “caution” for the rest of the coast.

  • Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

    South Sandwich hidden magnitude-8.2 earthquake source of mysterious 2021 global tsunami

    Predicting hazards for complex earthquakes can be difficult, as the South Sandwich Islands quake demonstrates

    By American Geophysical Union – Scientists have uncovered the source of a mysterious 2021 tsunami that sent waves around the globe. In August 2021, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit near the South Sandwich Islands, creating a tsunami that rippled around the globe. The epicenter was 47 kilometers below the Earth's surface—too deep to initiate a tsunami—and the rupture was nearly 400 kilometers long, which should have generated a much larger earthquake.

  • Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 08:51 UTC

    Moderate tsunami generated in the South Pacific following 7,7 magnitude earthquake

    The US government's NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said “hazardous tsunami waves” were forecast for some coasts

    A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Pacific on Thursday, generating a tsunami that threatened island nations in the region. The quake struck at just after midnight on Thursday local time (1320 GMT Wednesday) about 415 kilometers east of Vao in New Caledonia at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the US Geological Survey.

  • Monday, January 25th 2021 - 08:15 UTC

    Two earthquakes and confusing alert messages, shake Chile

    Following this first alert residents in continental Chile received a message on their mobile phones requesting they evacuate all beaches due to risk of tsunami

    Two earthquakes of 7 and 5.9 degrees of magnitude on the Ritcher scale shook Chile on Saturday, just thirty minutes apart, at Antarctica and in the center of Chile, with Chilean authorities calling to evacuate the coastal areas due to the risk of a tsunami, as a consequence of confusing alert messages.

  • Monday, December 28th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

    Sunday 6,8 magnitude earthquake rocks south central Chile on Sunday

    There were no initial reports of damage immediately following the quake.

    An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck off the coast of south-central Chile on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, but Chilean officials immediately discarded the risk of a tsunami.

  • Monday, March 16th 2020 - 10:23 UTC

    Oil drilling sediment shows Falklands could have suffered a tsunami a million years ago

    Computer models suggest these underwater landslides would have been capable of sending waves crashing on to the Falklands' coastline that were tens of meters high.

    Scientists have found evidence of ancient slope failures on the seafloor to the south of the Falkland Islands on the South Atlantic. Computer models suggest these underwater landslides would have been capable of sending waves crashing on to the Falklands' coastline that was tens of meters high.

  • Monday, November 18th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

    Third tidal “tsunami” keeps Venice under water; incessant rain also threatens Pisa and Florence

    Venice's latest “acqua alta”, or high water, hit 150cm on Sunday, lower than Tuesday's 187cm - the highest level in half a century - but still dangerous

    Venice's St Mark's Square was closed on Sunday as the historic city suffered its third major flooding in less than a week, while rain lashing the rest of Italy prompted warnings in Florence and Pisa.

  • Friday, December 28th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

    Indonesia volcano activity on the rise: exclusion area expanded and flights rerouted

    “The volcanic activity of Anak Krakatau continues to increase,” said BNPB in a press statement, citing data from the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia.

    The alert level for Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano has been raised to the second-highest level possible, after a series of eruptions, while all flights around the volcano have been rerouted and a 5km (three-mile) exclusion zone has also been imposed.

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