The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has issued a tsunami warning after three earthquakes, including the strongest of the magnitude 7.4, were recorded off Russia’s Pacific coast.
About 140 kilometers (87 miles) east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the capital of Russia’s Kamchatka region, which has a population of more than 160, 000, were the epicenters of a string of earthquakes, the last of which measured 6.7% and 5.7%, on Sunday.
Within 32 minutes, the earthquakes hit the same area off Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, according to the USGS.
At a depth of 20 kilometers (12 miles), the earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred. No casualties were immediately reported.
Parts of Russia are now in danger of falling into the US National Tsunami Warning Center. Hawaii’s state-wide tsunami watch was later lifted.
A 6. 8 magnitude earthquake was also reported off the east of Kamchatka region on Sunday, according to Germany’s GFZ monitor. Later, GFZ upgraded it to a new magnitude of 7.4.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is a part of the Bering Sea, facing the Pacific, northeast of Japan, and west of Alaska, across the Bering Sea.
The Kamchatka Peninsula is a seismic hot zone because it connects the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. The area has experienced seven significant earthquakes of magnitude 8.3 or higher since 1900.
A magnitude 9 earthquake in Kamchatka on November 4, 1952, shattered Hawaii and caused no deaths despite causing 9.1-meter (30-foot) waves.
Source: Aljazeera
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