Why 8.8 Magnitude Kamchatka Quake Is Rare but Not Unusual

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The recent 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Kamchatka generated a tsunami that hit coastal areas of Japan, Russia, and part of the West American coast. This reveals the importance of paying attention to this failure in the sites that cause these natural disasters. Read more

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A major earthquake shook the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia and triggered seismic alerts in several locations in the far east of the country.The movement occurred in one of the most tectonically active areas of the world and was perceived in different regions of the world.This type of events is directly related to a geological strip that concentrates most of the earthquakes and volcanoes on the planet. It is the Pacific Ocean fire belt, a region …

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At the easternmost end of the Russian Far East region is Kamchatka, a peninsula embedded in the Pacific Fire Belt. Here, disaster response reinforcements are neither seen nor expected from the central government.

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The 8.8 earthquake in Russia occurred in the Pacific Fire Circle, a area that emerged some 35,000 years ago, brings together tethonic plates and causes 90% of global earthquakes.

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The Pacific Fire Belt is recognized as the most unstable and dangerous region on the planet, being the origin of large-scale seismic phenomena, such as the recent massive earthquake in Russia. This strip brings together several countries within, and one of them is Mexico. We explain to you what this is all about. The Russian peninsula of Kamchatka was the epicenter of one of the most intense telluric movements recorded in the modern era, an even…