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Euronews
20-07-2025
- Climate
- Euronews
Tsunami threat declared in Russia's Kamchatka after powerful tremor
Three powerful earthquakes, the strongest one with a magnitude of 7.4 have been registered on Sunday in the waters of the Pacific Ocean near the Russian far-east peninsula of Kamchatka. Its epicentre, according to the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was 115 km from the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. According to Russian media, the tremors were felt for roughly a minute, causing to people to run out of buildings. The press service of the Main Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region said that specialists will begin examination of the buildings as soon as possible. About half an hour earlier, in approximately the same area, two earthquakes of magnitudes 5.3 and 6.5 occured. Local services have gone into high alert mode. No information on possible damage or casualties has been reported at this stage. On 4 November 1952, a magnitude 9.0 quake in Kamchatka caused damage but no reported deaths despite setting off 9.1-meter (30-foot) waves in Hawaii. This is a developing story and our journalists are working to bring you the latest updates
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russia injures two State Emergency Service press officers in Kyiv on Ukraine's Journalist Day
Pavlo Petrov and Inna Zhelchyk, press officers from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, sustained injuries as a result of a large-scale combined Russian strike on Kyiv on the night of 5-6 June, which fell on Journalist Day in Ukraine. Source: Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs, on Telegram Quote: "On Journalist Day, during the aftermath response to yet another attack, two press service employees from the Main Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kyiv were injured: Pavlo Petrov, head of the communications unit, and his colleague Inna Zhelchyk. Despite being injured himself, Pavlo saved his colleague." Details: Klymenko reported that the press officers are receiving medical assistance. Background: On the night of 5-6 June, Russian forces launched a combined drone and missile attack on Kyiv. As a result of the strikes, three employees of the State Emergency Service were killed. A total of 23 people were injured, including 14 emergency workers. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
