He President of ChileGabriel Boric, announced on Tuesday through a publication on his account in X that considers an evacuation throughout the country’s coast Due to the activation of the Tsunami alert in the Pacific after the earthquake of magnitude 8.8 that shook the Russian Peninsula of Kamchatka.
“The protocol is to evacuate 3 hours before the estimation of arrival of the wave“Boric warned shortly after the earthquake.
“For now we have Tsunami alert for the entire coast of Chile for tomorrow,” said the Chilean president, after communicating, in the same publication, that a national meeting of the Committee for Disaster Risk Management (Cogrid) was held.
The Hydrographic and Oceanographographographic Service of the Chilean Navy (Shoa) Validó “that at 7:25 p.m. on July 29, an earthquake of magnitude 8.7 occurred in the Pacific Basin, with an epicenter at 134 kilometers southeast of Petropavlovsk of Kamchatka, Russia. It should be noted, that this information was corroborated by the Pacific tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) “.
In turn, the National Disaster Prevention and Response Service (Senapred) also in X issued an “tsunami alert by a distant field” to the regions of Atacama, Coquimbo and Valparaíso of the possibility in its coastal edge.
In the same publication, Senapred announced the “precautionary state” for the regions of Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, O’Higgins, Maule, Ñuble, Biobío, La Araucanía, Los Ríos, Los Lagos, Aysén and Magallanes.
Boric finished his message with a call to maintain “the calm” and follow the “instructions of the authorities.”
