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San Juan County experiences a tsunami warning | Islands' Sounder
Tsunami alerts popping up on islanders’ cell phones the evening of July 29 caused some panic and confusion. The advisories were legitimate, stemming from an 8.8 earthquake off the Kamchatka coast in Russia. It is currently considered the sixth strongest earthquake on record.
After a 8.8 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale struck off the coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, Russia, on July 29, 2025, a video has gone viral showing the intensity with which the tsunami hit the area. The earthquake was considered one of the strongest recorded since 2011, occurred in the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction area and generated the tsunami that mainly affected the Kamchatka coast and the Kurile Islands. In Severo-Kurilsk, waves of…
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