“Magnitude – 7.0. Intensity in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (preliminary estimate) – 6.0,” we read in the report.
According to the regional correspondent of the Kremlin news agency TASS, residents of the area fled their homes due to the earthquake. Daily appliances in the apartments were damaged.
According to the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the tremor occurred at 7:21 a.m. Kamchatka time (9:21 p.m. in Poland). Its strength is 4.7, the strength of the tremor is not determined. Russian services have issued a tsunami warning.
Earthquake. An earthquake near a large city
This is yet another earthquake to hit the region in the last few hours. A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit on Saturday morning Polish time. “The earthquake occurred at a depth of 180.3 km. The magnitude of the shock was 5.2. The epicenter was 37 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,” Russian news quoted the Russian Academy of Sciences as saying. Company TASS.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is a city in the extreme Far East of Russia, the capital of Kamchatka Oblast. About 200,000 people live there. Residents. Kamchatka Oblast is an administrative unit of the Russian Federation formed on July 1, 2007 from the merger of Kamchatka Oblast and Koryat Autonomous Okrug.
Kamchatka. Tribal people were sent to war
It is from these areas that Vladimir Putin is mobilizing for war with Ukraine. 250 families from Kamchatka’s tribes received a bag of fish in exchange for conscripting their husbands, fathers and brothers into Putin’s army. A very high percentage of Kamchatka’s tribal population was drafted into the army. “And these are very small ethnic groups, some of them numbering a dozen or more,” Belchat reported in 2023.