“Strength – 7.0. Intensity in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (preliminary assessment) – 6.0,” the statement reads.
According to the regional correspondent of the Kremlin news agency TASS, residents of the region left their homes due to the earthquakes. Everyday equipment in the apartments was damaged.
According to the Kamchatka Branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the aftershock occurred at 7:21 Kamchatka time (9:21 p.m. Polish time). Its magnitude was 4.7. The strength of the tremors has not been determined. The Russian services issued a tsunami warning.
The earthquake coincided with news of the eruption of the Sheveluch volcano in northern Russia.
Earthquake. Epicenter near a large city.
Another earthquake in this region in the last hours. An earthquake occurred on Saturday morning, Polish time, with a magnitude of 5.2. “The earthquake occurred at a depth of 180.3 kilometers. The magnitude of the shock was 5.2. The epicenter was 37 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,” the Russian Academy of Sciences reports, citing the Russian news agency TASS.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is a city in the Far East of Russia, the capital of Kamchatka Krai. About 200,000 people live there. Population. Kamchatka Krai is an administrative unit of the Russian Federation, created on July 1, 2007 from the merger of Kamchatka Oblast and the Kuryat Autonomous District.
Kamchatka. Natives sent to war
From these areas, Vladimir Putin is mobilizing men for war with Ukraine. 250 indigenous families in Kamchatka received a bag of fish in exchange for their husbands, fathers and brothers being drafted into Putin’s army. A very high percentage of Kamchatka’s indigenous population is drafted into the army. “These are very small ethnic groups, some numbering as few as a dozen people or so,” Belsat reported in 2023.
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