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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Vladivostok, July 30 /Xinhua/ — The magnitude of the earthquake in Kamchatka, according to various estimates, reached 8.7. This is the strongest earthquake since 1952. This was reported on Wednesday in the Telegram channel of the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
It is noted that the focus is adjacent to the focus of the earthquakes of July 20, 2025 and August 17, 2024 from the southwest. The rupture extended at least 200 km in a southwesterly direction, along the axis of the deep-sea trench.
A powerful tremor occurred in Kamchatka today at 11:26 local time /02:26 Moscow time/. The intensity of the tremors in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, according to preliminary estimates, was at least 6 points.
According to TASS, the city is experiencing traffic jams, queues at gas stations, power outages and mobile internet. Several people have sought medical attention. A dangerous strong tsunami was observed on the coast. A tsunami with a wave height of 3-4 meters was recorded in the Yelizovsky district of Kamchatka, near the Vodopadnaya weather station.
As reported by the head of the Sakhalin Region, Valery Limarenko, on the same day seismologists recorded an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 in Severo-Kurilsk, residents are being evacuated, and a tsunami threat has been declared. –0–
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