Hawaii ikweza wotchi ya Tsunami

Bungwe la Pacific Tsunami Warning Center lakweza wotchi ya tsunami ku Hawaii pambuyo pa chivomezi champhamvu cha 7.9 pansi pa nyanja pafupi ndi zilumba za Samoa.

Malowa adatsitsa wotchi yaku Hawaii kukhala upangiri pa 10:23 a.m., malinga ndi mkulu wapakati Charles McCreery.

Zilumbazi zimakhalabe pansi pa upangiri wa tsunami mpaka 7 koloko masana, kutanthauza kuti nyanja kapena mafunde achilendo atha kuchitika. Malo ochenjeza akuti kusintha kwa nyanja kwa 3 mpaka 4 mapazi kungachitike pakati pa 1 koloko. ndi 7pm, McCreery adatero.

Chivomezicho chinayambitsa tsunami yomwe inafika pamtunda wa American Samoa.

Fili Sagapolutele, yemwe amagwira ntchito ku Samoa News, adati madzi adalowa m'mphepete mwa nyanja pafupifupi mayadi 100 ku Pago Pago asanatsike, ndikusiya magalimoto ali m'matope.

Panalibe malipoti achangu okhudza kuvulala kapena kuwonongeka kwa kapangidwe kake.

Ku Hawaii, okhalamo akulimbikitsidwa kuti asayimbire 911 kuti asinthe. M’malo mwake, ayenera kuyang’anira mmene zinthu zilili pawailesi yakanema, wailesi kapena pawebusaiti ya nkhani, atero a John Cummings a m’Dipatimenti Yoyang’anira Zangozi mumzindawo.

Wotchi ya tsunami idalengezedwa nthawi ya 8:05.

Chivomezicho chinali pamtunda wa makilomita 110 kum’maŵa kumpoto chakum’mawa kwa Hihifo, Tonga; makilomita 125 kum’mwera chakumadzulo kwa Apia, Samoa; 435 miles kumpoto chakum'mawa kwa Nukualofa, Tonga; ndi makilomita 1,670 kumpoto chakum’mawa kwa Auckland, New Zealand.

Ku likulu la dziko la Samoa ku Apia, mabanja adathawa mnyumba zawo chifukwa cha kugwedezeka kwakukulu komwe kudatenga mphindi zitatu, a Associated Press idatero. Atolankhani akumaloko adanenanso kuti anthu adathawira kumalo okwera.

Malo ochenjezawo ati zivomezi zazikuluzikuluzi zimatha kuyambitsa tsunami yowononga yomwe imatha kugunda magombe apafupi mkati mwa mphindi zochepa.

Nthawi yoyambirira yoyembekezeredwa kuti ifike ku tsunami ku Hawaii ikhala 1:11 p.m., likulu lochenjeza likutero.

Chenjezo la tsunami likugwira ntchito ku American Samoa, Samoa, Niue, Wallis-Futuna, Tokelau, Cook Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Kermadec Islands, Howland-Baker, Jarvis Island, New Zealand, French Polynesia ndi Palmyra Atoll.

Hawaii adalembedwa ngati pansi pa wotchi ya tsunami pamodzi ndi Vanuatu, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Johnston Atoll, New Caledonia, Kosrae, Papua New Guinea, Pohnpeo, Wake Island, Pitcairn Island ndi Midway.

Hawaii County Civil Defense ikulangiza anthu onse okhala m'mphepete mwa nyanja chifukwa cha Tsunami Advisory yomwe ikugwira ntchito kuzilumba za Hawaii. Magombe onse atsekedwa mpaka mawa chifukwa cha kusefukira komwe kungachitike komanso mafunde achilendo kuchokera ku chivomezi ku Samoa.