Overview

• The quake struck overnight off the peninsula’s east coast, northeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
• Authorities issued a tsunami warning for coastal communities while coastal checks and assessments were underway.
• Early reports from the sparsely populated area indicated no confirmed injuries or significant damage.
• Regional seismologists revised the magnitude to about 7.2 after initial readings of 7.7 reported by state media.
• The jolt follows a separate magnitude‑7.4 event days earlier, for which a tsunami alert was quickly lifted.