The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says the threat of a tsunami on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has passed following five earthquakes.
The larger quake, a magnitude-7.4, was at a depth of 20 kilometres and was 144 kilometres east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. A tsunami warning has been cancelled.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) says there is no longer a danger of tsunami waves hitting Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula after five powerful earthquakes — the largest with a magnitude of 7.4 — struck in nearby waters on Sunday.
The largest quake was at a depth of 20 kilometres and was 144 kilometres east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a population of 180,000. The smaller — but still substantial — quakes were recorded before and after, including a quake with a magnitude of 6.7.
The PTWC initially said there was a danger of major tsunami waves but later downgraded its warning before finally saying the danger had passed. Twin earthquakes of more than magnitude-6.5 struck 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 10 kilometres. Measurements of earthquakes often vary in the first hours after they occur.There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Waves of up to 40cm may affect the Ust-Kamchatsky region in eastern Kamchatka, while the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky urban district — the most densely populated area in the south-eastern part of the peninsula and home to the regional capital — might see waves of up to 15cm.
On November 4, 1952, a magnitude-9.0 quake in Kamchatka caused damage but no reported deaths despite setting off 9.1-meter waves in Hawaii.
**Astro-cartography Report of Todays Major quake by SolarWatcher**
Venus is merging into a significant square aspect with Mars in 2 days while mars conjoins the South Lunar Node. Note the position of Jupiter (geodetic trine aspect just west of the earthquake epicenter and the Mars-Node geometry. Saturn and Saturn are slowly spreading from their near conjunction but are still 13 minutes apart or with-in one degree of separation.
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