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Buildings are damaged by a tsunami following an earthquake in Iwaki City, northeastern Japan

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From Australia to Latin America, virtually all the countries bordering the Pacific Ocean could suffer the consequences of the earthquake, according to the American center that monitors tsunamis. For the moment, except Japan, where a 10-meter tsunami devastated the coast of Sendai, northeast, not seen any damage. In Latin America, Ecuador declared a state of emergency before an "imminent threat of tsunami and ordered evacuations in the coastal zone.

Honduras declared a red alert for tsunami risk. Red alert involves the mobilization of relief agencies to evacuate thousands of people and away from the seashore. Chile launched a tsunami early warning on all its costs, but asked people not to alter their normal activities. In late February 2010, an earthquake and tsunami affected row south-central Chile, leaving 555 dead and missing, most of them in the Maule region. the Mexican authorities had not issued a tsunami alert and watching the waves on Colombian Pacific coast, which recorded an increase of 50 centimeters, but no evacuations ordered in time.

Across the ocean, the first waves of low intensity, reached the coast of two Kuril Islands (Russia), where 11,000 people were evacuated. In Taiwan, the waves caused by the earthquake reached the coast, without causing damage. The sirens also sounded in Hawaii began to order the evacuation of the coastline and one U.S. territory, the island of Guam, also evacuated their shores. Thousands of miles to the southwest, the Philippine authorities ordered the inhabitants of the Pacific Coast to leave the area and head to the "inland."

Indonesia also launched an alert on the east, especially in Papua and the Moluccas. In 2004, a tsunami grew the water level in Indonesia's Aceh province to over 30 meters, causing the deaths of some 168,000 people. The tsunami swept hundreds of miles to the Maldives and Somalia, leaving a total of 220,000 dead in Southeast Asia. In Oceania, Australia indicated that the waves did not involve "risks", but the New Zealand writer issued a tsunami alert and called on people to get away from the coast.