Archive July 30, 2025

Tsunami waves breached the US mainland west coast at California’s San Francisco at 1: 12am (08: 12 GMT) Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service for the San Francisco Bay Area. The tsunami is also impacting the state’s coastal Arena Cove area and making its way further down the coast, the National Weather Service reported.

Further south-west in the Pacific, 1-1.2-metre (3.3-3.9 feet) waves began impacting the US Hawaiian Islands shortly after 8: 00pm local time Tuesday (06: 00 GMT on Wednesday, July 30), according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC). However, in an update, the centre said it did not expect a major tsunami to strike the state.

While there have been no reports of damage in Hawaii, Governor Josh Green said authorities would wait several hours before being able to assess that the situation is safe: “We are not yet in the clear”.

Earlier, the US Tsunami Warning Centers had warned that waves as high as 1 to 3 metres (3.3-9.8ft) were possible in Hawaii, while the Honolulu Department of Emergency Management had advised residents of some coastal areas to evacuate.

Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency said all commercial harbours have been closed. Flights in and out of Hawaii’s second-largest island of Maui were also cancelled Tuesday night, Green said.

The tsunami threat comes as the aftermath of the 8.8 quake in Russia’s far-eastern Kamchatka region – one of the largest on record – puts residents on alert in coastal areas of parts of Russia, Latin America and numerous Asian and Pacific island states.

Waves up to 4 metres (13ft) high have already struck Russia’s far-eastern Kamchatka region, causing some buildings to be submerged. Thousands of citizens in impacted islands have been evacuated.

Japan is bracing for damage as well, with evacuation orders issued for people living along coastal areas or rivers.

Tsunami waves have also been detected by coastal gauges along Alaska’s east Aleutian Islands and the Pacific side of the Alaska Peninsula, according to the US’s National Weather Service (NWS) in Anchorage.

The impact of the tsunami could last for hours or perhaps more than a day, said Dave Snider, tsunami warning coordinator with the National Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska

The three-day survey conducted by Reuters news agency and Ipsos, which ended on Monday, surveyed 1, 023 US adults nationwide, with a 3 percentage point margin of error.

In the most recent Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted on July 15 and 16, Trump received a 41% approval rating.

The most recent poll found that the country is deeply divided over Trump, with only 3% of Republicans and 3% of Democrats expressing support for his actions. About one-third of independents voted in favor.

Americans gave Trump mixed marks in both the US economy and immigration, according to the poll, which revealed that his administration is using aggressive tactics in both areas.

Because Trump had a major advantage in the 2024 election, the recent lapse in immigration is especially significant. It was also one of the few instances where he was outperforming his overall approval before his second term. About half of US adults were in favor of his immigration policies in March.

Additionally, other recent polls reveal growing unease with Trump’s immigration policy. According to a poll conducted by CNN and SSRS, 55% of US adults believe the president has overstepped their bounds in the deportation of illegal immigrants who are living here, up 10% since February.

Donovan Baldwin, 18, of Asheboro, North Carolina, who did not cast a ballot in the 2024 election, said, “I understand wanting to get rid of illegal immigrants, but the way that’s being done is very aggressive. Because it sounds like it’s an act of aggression, people are protesting. It’s not appropriate.

In contrast to the 35% approval in the middle of the Reuters poll from the middle of July, about 38 percent of respondents found Trump’s economic management to be true.

However, according to the CNN poll, Trump’s economy-management ratings, which were earlier more favorable, have remained persistently negative. Few Americans believe Trump’s policies have helped them so far, according to the study.

The potential negative effects of Trump’s tariffs on the domestic market are a source of concern.

Brian Nichols, 58, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, gives him the benefit of the doubt despite his disapproval of everything Trump has to date.

Nichols, who voted for Trump in 2024, enjoys what the president is offering in general, despite his concerns with both style and substance, particularly with regard to Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs.

According to a survey, people all over the world are living better lives and expressing more hope for the future, with the proportion of those who are “thriving” reaching a record high.

A median of 33 percent of adults in 142 countries last year rated their lives as being in good enough condition to qualify as thriving, up two percentage points from 2023, according to Gallup’s data released on Tuesday.

Adults were categorized as “suffering,” a median of 7%, down from a low of 11% in 2014.

The outcomes follow a trend of consistently rising satisfaction over the past two decades that Gallup has been asking people to assess the quality of their lives.

A median of 20% of adults were categorized as thriving in 2008, the year the world financial crisis struck.

Benedict Vigers, a senior global news writer at Gallup, said, “The world is not short of significant challenges, from conflicts to technological upheaval.”

More people in more countries say they live better lives today and have hope for the future, compared to fewer people who are suffering, even in this context.

North America, Australia, and New Zealand had medians of 49 percent, followed by North America, which had the highest level of life satisfaction, with a median of 66 percent of adults deemed to be prospering.

With medians of 11 percent, 15 percent, and 17 percent, respectively, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and MENA had the lowest perceptions of quality of life.

According to Gallup, the percentage of people in 12 countries who are prosperous increased by 20 points or more over the past ten years, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Hungary.

According to Gallup, perceptions remained consistent with improvements in the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), which measures life expectancy and income, even though the developed nations did not necessarily experience the greatest improvements in subjective well-being.

Gallup polled respondents to assess their perceptions of what they thought they would be like in five years, on a scale of 0 to 10.