Kenyans have been advised to be on the lookout for the effects of a Tsunami that originated from a quake that hit eastern Japan at 8.46am Kenyan time Friday.
However the Tsunami waves projected to hit the Kenyan coast on Saturday at around 4am will be weak.
The Tsunami was occasioned by an earthquake of magnitude 8.9 which erupted in the Sanriku Oki region in Japan, causing massive damage and killing at least 22 people.
The resulting Tsunami has adversely affected Japan and neighboring areas in the Pacific and in some locations in eastern and even western Japan, the waves hitting the coast have been 3m and over going to as high as 7.3m.
The major adverse impacts of the Tsunami are projected to be confined to the Pacific Ocean. However, some waves will penetrate through Indonesia into the Indian Ocean and on to the Kenyan coast.
The biggest earthquake to hit Japan in 140 years struck the northeast coast on Friday, triggering a 10-meter tsunami that swept away everything in its path, including houses, cars and farm buildings on fire.
The Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia all issued tsunami alerts, reviving memories of the giant tsunami which struck Asia in 2004 killing at least 140 000 people. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued alerts for countries to the west and across the Pacific as far away as Colombia and Peru.
There were several strong aftershocks. In Tokyo, buildings shook violently. An oil refinery near the city was on fire, with dozens of storage tanks under threat.
Stunning TV footage showed the tsunami carrying the debris and fires across a large swathe of coastal farmland near the city of Sendai, which has a population of one million. The pictures suggested the death toll was going to rise.
Sendai is 300 km (180 miles) northeast of Tokyo and the epicenter at sea was not far away.
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