Overview

• The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed a shallow magnitude 8.7 earthquake at 19.3 km depth roughly 125 km east-southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
• Kamchatka regional authorities reported tsunami waves up to four meters that damaged buildings including a kindergarten and prompted coastal evacuations.
• Japan’s Meteorological Agency and U.S. tsunami centers have active warnings or watches for Japan, the Aleutians, the U.S. West Coast, Hawaii, Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan.
• No injuries have been reported so far but the quake caused power outages, mobile service failures and structural damage in parts of Kamchatka.
• Emergency teams maintain sea-level and aftershock monitoring to guide further evacuations and response efforts across the Pacific.