Tsunami warning issued after two large quakes rock Russia’s Pacific coast
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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has announced a warning for Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula following two earthquakes — the more significant one having a magnitude of 7.4 — that occurred in the sea close by on Sunday.

The bigger quake was recorded at a depth of 12 miles and was situated 89 miles east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city with 180,000 residents, as reported by the US Geological Survey.

A few minutes earlier, a quake with a magnitude of 6.7 was recorded nearby.


Map showing earthquake epicenter and concentric circles indicating intensity.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued an alert for Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Sunday. USGS

The German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) reported double earthquakes exceeding a 6.5 magnitude, hitting near the coast of Kamchatka, in Russia’s far east, early on Sunday.

It measured the quakes at 6.6 and 6.7 and the depth of both at 6 miles.

Measurements of earthquakes often vary in the first hours after they occur.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

On Nov. 4, 1952, a magnitude 9.0 quake in Kamchatka caused damage but no reported deaths despite setting off many 30-foot waves in Hawaii.

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