Overview

• The USGS reported a magnitude 7.8 earthquake striking 128 kilometers east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at a depth of 10 kilometers.
• The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center initially warned of dangerous waves for nearby coasts before confirming the threat had ended.
• Russia’s state geophysical service estimated the quake at magnitude 7.4 and recorded at least five aftershocks.
• Kamchatka governor Vladimir Solodov urged calm and said authorities had no reports of damage after a tsunami alarm for the peninsula’s eastern coast.
• The shock continues a heightened seismic sequence since a magnitude 8.8 event on July 30, with Solodov noting roughly 2,000 tremors recorded since then.