Tsunami alert issued in Japan,Russia &Phillipines is also under threat.

A day after the earthquake in Chile,a major tsunami warning has been issued in Japan,also in Russia.
Tsunami warnings were lifted in other nations across the Pacific Basin's “Ring of Fire” as concern of destructive waves eased, but Tokyo and Moscow were taking no chances after one of the biggest earthquakes on record.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) for the pacific coast of Aomori prefecture, coast of Miyagi and Iwate prefectures in northeast Japan, saying "very high tsunami" with waves up to 3 meters are expected in the areas, and "everyone near the coast must immediately evacuate to higher ground".
Waves that started in Chile and rolled through Hawaii, French Polynesia and the South Pacific as the tsunami moved at jet-speed across the vast ocean after Saturday's 8.8-magnitude quake, which caused at least 300 people dead.
Warning sirened throughout 50 countries and territories along an arc stretching from New Zealand to Japan were put on alert, five years after the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster that killed more than 220,000 people.
Causalities of the Chile quake started off 5 death in the remote Robinson Crusoe island.The Hawaii-based Tsunami Warning Center of pacific lifted its tsunami warning for everywhere except Japan and Russia, but the Philippines was also bracing for outsized waves.
The Chilean disaster remembered raw memories for Japan, where 140 lives were lost in 1960 when a 9.5-magnitude earthquake in the South American nation — the largest on record — sent a tsunami roaring across the Pacific.

The tsunami is about to hit Hokkaido and Izu-Ogasawara islands around 1 p.m, followed by other areas, it said on the public broadcaster NHK.

In May 1960, a tsunami struck the coasts of Hokkaido and the Sanriku region of Japan after a magnitude 9.5 quake in Chile, leaving around 140 people dead or missing.

“Last time, waves that hit after the first one became even more powerful,”said Japan Meteorological Agency official Yasuo Sekita.
“We believe it will be the case this time, too,” he said, as Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama set up an emergency task force. “The agency will keep the tsunami alert for quite a long time.”Russia issued a similar warning and launched an evacuation in its Pacific peninsula of Kamchatka.
Thousands of families in the Philippines also fled coastal areas..