Did powerful 8.8 earthquake shift Kamchatka Peninsula by few meters? Scientists make massive claim days after tremors
Kamchatka Peninsula
shifted nearly two meters (approximately 6 feet) southeast following the massive 8.8 earthquake last month on July 30, 2025, local authorities said Tuesday (August 5, 2025), according to media reports.
Preliminary geodynamic data indicate significant ground movement, with the strongest displacements recorded in the south, according to a statement published by the Kamchatka branch of the Federal Research Center of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences on its Telegram channel, as reported by Xinhua News Agency. It further stated that the shifts were comparable to those seen after Japan's 2011 Tohoku earthquake.
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Russian scientists have reported detecting smaller shifts near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. They also noted that the pattern of deformation matches early fault models, explaining the stronger impact in Severo-Kurilsk and milder effects in other areas.
A very powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka coast on Wednesday (July 30, 2025) triggered tsunami warnings as far away as French Polynesia and Chile and was followed by an eruption of the most active volcano on the peninsula.
Kamchatka earthquake triggers volcanic eruption
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The July earthquake in Kamchatka triggered the Krasheninnikov volcano in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula for the first time in 600 years, sending a massive ash plume up to six kilometers into the sky, the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported.
According to the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT), the eruption began at 2:50 a.m. local time on Sunday, initially producing ash plumes that reached an altitude of 3 to 4 kilometers above sea level. Later, the ash column rose significantly, reaching up to 6,000 meters (19,700 feet), prompting the issuance of an orange aviation warning for the region.
Olga Girina, the head of KVERT, earlier confirmed to RIA Novosti that the eruption marked the first recorded activity of the Krasheninnikov volcano in over six centuries. The report also said that the plume is moving southeast, gradually drifting toward the Pacific Ocean.
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