Earlier Sunday in Tonga, where up to 50,000 people fled inland hours ahead of the tsunami, the National Disaster Office had reports of a wave up to 6.5 feet high hitting a small northern island, deputy director Mali’u Takai said
The first tsunami from the Chile quake hit Japan’s outlying islands on Sunday, but the initial waves were small, though officials warned a bigger surge of water could reach the country’s main islands. Japan’s Meteorological Agency said the first tsunami to reach Japan after the magnitude 8.8 quake off Chile was recorded in the Ogasawara […]