6 hours agoA mighty 7.4 magnitude earthquake hits Russia's coast
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Tsunami alarms followed two powerful earthquakes in the Pacific. The Pacific Cunami Warning Centre has put Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula under official threat to tsunami after quakes with magnitude 7.4 and 6.7 on the Richter scale off its shores. The 7.4 magnitude quake struck about 143 kilometers [...]
The Pacific Cunami Warning Centre has put Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula under official threat to tsunami after quakes with magnitude 7.4 and 6.7 on the Richter scale off its shores.
The 7.4 magnitude quake struck some 143 km east of the Russian town of Petropavlovsk - Kamchatsky, they write Foreign media.
The city has a population of 180,000 and is the largest country threatened.
A slightly smaller 6.7 quake struck just a few minutes ago in a similar area.
He feared Hawaii would also be affected, but a tsunami warning on the entire island has now withdrawn.
Alarms were also issued for Guam and American Samoan, but they have also been removed.
U n The SGS warned that dangerous tsunami <x0waves are possible” within 300 kilometers of the Pacific Epicenter.
There were no immediate reports of casualties after earthquakes./Periscopi/
