Various estimates show that the earthquake in Kamchatka, in the Russian Far East, reached 8.7, making it the most powerful earthquake since 1952.
“The strongest earthquake has just happened in the Kamchatka seismic focus zone since 1952. Various estimates show that the magnitude reaches 8.7. This is certainly an outstanding event,” the report states.
The service states that it is adjacent to the source of the earthquakes of July 20, 2025 and August 17, 2024 from the southwest. The rupture was extended at least 200 km southwest along the deep sea trench axis.
Seismicologists have recorded a strong earthquake, the size of 7.1 150 km, from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. There, it was felt by the power of about six points, the press agency of the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysics Services of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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