The peninsula Kamchatkalocated at the eastern end of Russiahas lived one of the strongest earthquakes ever registered. It happened at 8:25 in the morning (local time in Russia), put the Russian government in alarm and then much of the Pacific.
The alerts were happening from Russia to Japanwhich ordered the evacuation of two million people residing in coastal areas of the Japanese country to avoid fatalities and injured after the arrival of the first waves to the coast. In Japan, it mainly affected the areas of Hokkaido, Aomori, Iware, Fukushima, Chiva, Ibaraki and Wakayamaamong others, with waves about three meters high.
Thus, the images and videos of the effects of the earthquake have been seen hours after it. One of the most striking videos has starred by a pack of marine lions that have been surprised by the fall of rocks of a cliff In Kamchatka’s own region.
Animals have lived moments of tension and panic when the earthquake occurs and have begun to launch into the water in the face of the powerful effects of the earthquake.
Russia and Japan deactivate Tsunami alerts
As much as Russia and Japan have diminished Tsunami alerts in their respective regions after an earthquake that will go down in history as The strongest from the tsunami in Japanese lands that occurred in 2011. On that occasion, the tremor of magnitude 9.0 caused a serious tsunami in which almost 20,000 people died.
The tremors occur regularly in this area when it is a seismically active subduction placesince the Pacific plaque is subdumed northwest under the North American Plate. Specifically, this surface is located east of the Kuriles islands and the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Thus, the coastal region has lived almost 700 earthquakes of magnitude greater than 5 since 1990. The largest host in this section was one of magnitude 9.0 in 1952, whose epicenter was less than 30 kilometers from the epicenter of the tremor of this July 29, 2025.
