{"id":3672,"date":"2025-07-30T01:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/pacific-tsunami-alert-after-magnitude-8-0-quake-off-russia-coast-usgs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T01:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:59:20","slug":"pacific-tsunami-alert-after-magnitude-8-0-quake-off-russia-coast-usgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/pacific-tsunami-alert-after-magnitude-8-0-quake-off-russia-coast-usgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific tsunami alert after magnitude 8.0 quake off Russia coast: USGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-images norender-embeds ui-sortable\">&nbsp;\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\"><figcaption contenteditable=\"true\" class>A Richter scale mearing the intensity of an earthquake. &mdash; Reuters\/File<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON: A powerful magnitude 8.6 earthquake struck off Russia&rsquo;s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, sparking tsunami warnings, prompting evacuationsand causing some damage, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today&rsquo;s earthquake was serious and the strongest in decades of tremors,&rdquo; Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app. He added that according to preliminary information there were no injuries, but a kindergarten was damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was shallow at a depth of 19.3 km (12 miles), and was centred about 125 km (80 miles) east-southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city of 165,000 along the coast of Avacha Bay. It revised the magnitude up from 8.0 earlier.<\/p>\n<p>An evacuation order for the small town of Severo-Kurilsk, south of the peninsula, was declared due to the tsunami threat following the earthquake, Sakhalin Governor Valery Limarenko said on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>The Kamchatka branch of Russia&rsquo;s Ministry for Emergency Services said on Telegram that a tsunami wave up to 32 cm (1 foot) high may reach the coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Weather Agency said it expected a tsunami of up to 1 metre (3.3 feet) to reach large coastal areas starting around 0100 GMT.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The U.S. Tsunami Warning System also issued a warning of &ldquo;hazardous tsunami waves&rdquo; within the next three hours along some coasts of Russia and Japan. A tsunami watch was also in effect for the U.S. island territory of Guam and other islands of Micronesia.<\/p>\n<p>Kamchatka and Russia&rsquo;s Far East sit on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a geologically active region that is prone to major earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Pacific tsunami alert after magnitude 8.0 quake off Russia coast: USGS<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Richter scale mearing the intensity of an earthquake. &mdash; Reuters\/File WASHINGTON: A powerful magnitude 8.6 earthquake struck off Russia&rsquo;s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, sparking tsunami warnings, prompting evacuationsand causing some damage, officials said. &ldquo;Today&rsquo;s earthquake was serious and the strongest in decades of tremors,&rdquo; Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov said in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/pacific-tsunami-alert-after-magnitude-8-0-quake-off-russia-coast-usgs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Pacific tsunami alert after magnitude 8.0 quake off Russia coast: USGS&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}