US EditionWhy Didn't the Kamchatka Earthquake Cause a More Severe Tsunami?
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This Tuesday, one of the strongest earthquakes of the last time surprised eastern Russia.The movement reached a magnitude of 8.8 on the distant Kamchatka peninsula and set off alarms in several areas of the Pacific, where in different countries they had preventive evacuations on the coast.The memory of the devastating tsunamis of 2004 in the Indian Ocean and of 2011 in Japan – added to the Chilean experience in 2010 – were triggers to evacuate m…
The Russian Far East was rocked by several aftershocks after the sixth-strongest earthquake ever recorded – a magnitude of 8.8. The strongest reached a magnitude of 6.4. The port on the Kuril Islands was left without electricity and is currently out of service. Most countries around the Pacific have since lowered or lifted their tsunami warnings, with the exceptions of New Zealand and Chile. They continue to urge residents to evacuate the coast.…
The earthquake of the third (29) in the Pacific was the largest since the earthquake caused the tsunami that hit Fukushima's nuclear plant in Japan in 2011.
The tsunami waves caused by the earthquake remained moderate in height.
It was one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded - but so far it has not caused the catastrophic tsunami that many feared. When the earthquake is strong
Seismologists are searching for an explanation for why Wednesday's exceptionally strong earthquake off the Russian coast did not flood the more distant Pacific coasts (Russia, Japan or Hawaii) with extreme tsunami shock waves. The researchers now face months of work. They stressed that the greatest success is functional early warning systems.
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