A new 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Kamchatka

A new earthquake has been recorded off the coast of Kamchatka, its magnitude has reached 6.5. This was announced on July 30 on the website of the Federal Research Center of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FITTS YGS RAS).

The seismic event occurred 178 km from Severo-Kurilsk, and later another 5.3 magnitude earthquake was recorded there.

The earthquake was located at a depth of 68 km. According to the USGS RAS, after the morning earthquake in Kamchatka, more than 100 aftershocks of magnitude 5 and higher occurred.

"It was shaking very hard": eyewitness monologues about the earthquake in Kamchatka

It was already evening in the region, but not everyone decided to return to their homes.

Earlier that day, a powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.7 occurred in the Kamchatka Territory. A tsunami threat was declared on the coast of the Avacha Bay. Emergency regimes were declared in the North Kuril region of the Sakhalin region and in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

A regional headquarters has been deployed in Kamchatka, and the healthcare system has been put on high alert. According to the regional Ministry of Health, one person was injured, the woman's condition is satisfactory.

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