CAMP MURRAY, Wash. (AP) — Washington state emergency management officials say they’re in touch with sheriff’s offices and emergency responders in Pacific, Grays Harbor, Jefferson and Clallam counties after a tsunami advisory was issued for the coast in the wake of a massive earthquake in Japan.
Emergency Management spokesman Rob Harper said early Friday the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center reports that a wave less than 3 feet tall might reach the Washington coast about 7 a.m.
Harper says even a wave of that height can be hazardous along the coast.
He says officials are discussing the best steps “to keep people out of harm’s way” — whether that be posting law enforcement officers at beach road entrances or using loudspeaker warning systems.
