7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Jolts Russia’s Kamchatka
USGS reports quake east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky; Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre confirms threat has passed.
- 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck 111 km east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
- USGS revised initial 7.5 reading to 7.4
- Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre confirmed no tsunami threat
- July’s 8.8-magnitude quake in the region had triggered widespread evacuations
GG News Bureau
Moscow, 13th Sept: A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka coast on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported, but authorities confirmed there was no tsunami threat.
The quake’s epicentre was located 111 kilometres east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the administrative hub of the Kamchatka region, at a depth of 39.5 kilometres. The USGS initially measured the tremor at 7.5 before revising it downward.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) first cautioned that “hazardous” waves of up to one metre could impact nearby Russian coasts but later clarified that “the tsunami threat has now passed.”
The quake comes weeks after July’s massive 8.8-magnitude tremor in the same region, which triggered four-metre-high tsunamis across the Pacific and prompted large-scale evacuations from Hawaii to Japan.
