Sources have stated that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) said, citing USGS data that an earthquake of a magnitude 8.2 struck off the coast of Chiapas, Mexico, late on Thursday local time. Accordingly PTWC stated that Tsunami waves of more than 3 meters, or nearly 10 feet, above the tide level are possible along some coasts of Mexico.
Meanwhile it added that tsunami waves of 0.3 to 1 meter above the tide level were possible for some coasts of American Samoa, Antarctica, the Cook Islands, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Polynesia, Guatemala, Kiribati, New Zealand, Samoa, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna.
Accordingly Tsunami waves of less than 0.3 meters
above tide level were possible Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Hawaii,
Honduras, Jarvis Island, Nicaragua, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Palmyra
Island, Panama and Peru. Moreover the quake's preliminary reading had been at
magnitude 8.0. Further the National Weather Service didn't expect a tsunami on
the U.S. West Coast or Britich Columbia.