Liverpool friendly weather latest as Yokohama FM match decision made after tsunami warning

Liverpool are set to take on Yokohama F Marinos at the Nissan Stadium, despite a tsunami warning in Japan.

Liverpool’s final pre-season friendly in the Far East against Yokohama F Marinos will go ahead despite an ongoing tsunami warning in Japan. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, an earthquake with an 8.8 magnitude hit the far eastern coast of Russia, causing tsunami waves to strike Japan and the United States.

Liverpool are ready to take on the Japanese outfit at the Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, at 11.30am (UK time), before returning to England for the next stage of preparations ahead of a Community Shield meeting with Crystal Palace. The Reds were previously beaten by AC Milan – in Hong Kong – after suffering a 4-2 reverse.

Prior to that disappointment against the Italian giants, the Reds enjoyed a winning start with victories vs Preston North End and in a behind-closed-doors friendly and Stoke City, where Darwin Nunez netted a treble.

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Arne Slot’s squad have been gearing up for their Premier League title defence and have welcomed Hugo Ekitike into the fold after meeting his new teammates on their Far East tour after a move from Eintracht Frankfurt.

Public transport services into Yokohama are said to be running as normal, despite orders elsewhere in Japan.

A tsunami struck Hokkaido, the large northern Japanese island, around 1,280km from the Nissan Stadium – with an initial wave of one foot in height reaching Nemuro.

The US Tsunami Warning Centre has said that waves of more than three metres high are possible along the coasts of Ecuador, north-western Haiwaiian islands and Russia.

Meanwhile, it has been claimed that waves between one to three metres are possible along the coasts of Chile, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Japan and islands in the pacific.

Japan has said citizens should be on high alert with 1.9million people under evacuation orders.

“It’s taken about eight hours to get from Kamchatka (in Russia’s Far East) to Hawaii, which is about the time it would take to fly there,” professor Chris Elders, a structural geology expert at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“There’s two different aspects. One is the tsunami wave which is spreading out from the epicentre of the earthquake… that wave will continue to spread out around the Pacific and the precise magnitude of the wave will depend on the way it is travelling.

“There will also be a large number of aftershocks. There have already been 45 aftershocks after the main event.

“That is a very big effect. The aftershocks are smaller, a magnitude of about five, so that’s 100 times less energy being released, but still disconcerting for the people having to experience them.”

Liverpool social media channels have carried on as normal with posts shared across their respective pages.

Some of the first-team have also posted to their profiles previewing the upcoming game.