03-08-2025
New tsunami warning from Russia after Kuril Islands quake
An earthquake of 6.8 magnitude has struck Russia's Kuril Islands on Sunday morning, the German Research Center for Geosciences said, triggering a tsunami warning for the coast of Kamchatka.
Russian officials predicted a tsunami wave of up to 19 centimeters (7.5 inches) affecting a section of the Kamchatka coast.
"As a result of the earthquake that occurred in the Pacific Ocean, a tsunami wave no more than 19 centimeters high may reach the Aleutian municipal district, no more than 15 centimeters high may reach the Ust-Kamchatsky municipal district, and no more than 3 centimeters high may reach the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky urban district," a report by Kamchatka Tsunami Warning and Monitoring Center said.
The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake was at a magnitude of 7.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning System, which also gauged the quake at 7.0, said there was no tsunami warning for the island of Hawaii after the quake.
Earthquakes and the Krasheninnikov eruption
This is the second earthquake reported from near Russia within a week. On July 30, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit the region with several strong aftershocks.
The second tremors of the week have come hours after the Krasheninnikov Volcano in Kamchatka erupted overnight, for the first time in 600 years.
Russia's state news agency cited the head of the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team, Olga Girina saying the eruption may have been connected to the earthquake on Wedbesday that triggered tsunami warnings as far as French Polynesia and Chile.
This is a developing story and will be updated
