Some 700,000 people have been evacuated from Cuba's northeastern coast as Hurricane Irma barrels westward across the Caribbean, authorities said Thursday.
The southern half of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula was bracing for tropical storm Lidia on Thursday, as it barreled towards the popular vacation destination with maximum sustained winds of 100 km per hour.
Eighteen people were wounded on Sunday after a natural phenomenon called "Seiche" hit the Iranian port city of Dayyer in South, a provincial official said.
Weather forecasters issued an orange alert for waves and a yellow alert for storms on Sunday as Typhoon Malakas moved along the east coast of the Chinese mainland.
Ferry services were shut down and some seaside communities were warned they could be swamped by large waves as Typhoon Noul drew closer to the Philippines on Saturday (May 9), officials said.
China's marine forecast station on Sunday issued an orange alert as a powerful typhoon generates giant waves.
Waves
up to nine meters have been seen in the East China Sea under the
influence of the typhoon Vongfong and a strong cold front coming from
west China, said the station.
According to the forecast, waves up
to 10 meters high will form in the East China Sea and the Diaoyu
Islands will see waves as high as six meters on Sunday night and Monday.
More than 30 people have been injured by a tidal bore in the Qiantang River in the eastern Zhejiang Province of China. Given extra impetus by a typhoon, the huge and powerful tidal
wave gathered momentum and crashed into the river bank in the city of
Haining.
Προς τη Χαβάη κατευθύνεται το τσουνάμι που προκάλεσε ο σεισμός των 7,7
βαθμών της κλίμακας Ρίχτερ, στ’ ανοικτά της δυτικής ακτής του Καναδά,
ανακοίνωσε το Κέντρο Προειδοποίησης για τσουνάμι στον Ειρηνικό.
Οι κάτοικοι κλήθηκαν να εγκαταλείψουν τις παράκτιες περιοχές, ενώ σειρήνες ηχούν σε όλα τα νησιά της Χαβάης.
Αξιωματούχοι του Κέντρου Προειδοποίησης για Τσουνάμι δήλωσαν ότι αναμένονται κύματα ύψους από ένα ως δύο μέτρα.