Jakarta, July 30 -- The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has urged the public not to underestimate tsunami early warnings, saying that waves measuring less than 50 centimeters in height can still be deadly.

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) issued an early tsunami warning, predicting wave heights of less than 50 cm, for parts of Indonesia, following an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Kamchatka, Russia, on Wednesday morning.

Modeling and measurements at several locations across the Pacific Ocean have put average tsunami wave heights outside of Russia, including Indonesia, below 50 cm, head of the BNPB's Data, Information, and Communication Center, Abdul Muhari, said at a press conference here on Wednesday....