Videos have emerged on social media from the region, showing violent shaking inside buildings, with damage reported at multiple places.
July 30, 2025: Moscow: Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula witnessed a powerful magnitude 8.7 earthquake on Wednesday. The quake has triggered a Pacific Ocean tsunami warning.
According to the warning issues by US Global Survey, (USGS), tsunami waves could reach areas along the coasts of Russia and Japan in the next three hours.
According to experts, the quake was shallow at a depth of 19.3 km (12 miles), and was centred about 125 km (80 miles) east-southeast of Petropavlovsk in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula along the coast of Avacha Bay, the USGS said as it revised the magnitude up from 8.0 earlier.
Videos have emerged on social media from the region, showing violent shaking inside buildings, with damage reported at multiple places.
A video shows the moment the powerful earthquake was detected by the seismic centre in Russia, sparking an alarm.
🚨#BREAKING: Watch as footage captures the moment the powerful 8.0 earthquake was detected by seismic sensors in Russia, with alarms blaring across monitoring stations. In response, the Tsunami Warning Center has issued an alert for Russia's Far East, while Hawaii have been… pic.twitter.com/STWS5rGkqi
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In one of the surveillance videos from inside what appears to be a mobile shop, furniture can be seen shaking as the building trembles.
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Major Earthquake Strikes Off Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
A powerful earthquake occurred on July 29, 2025, at approximately 23:24 UTC (7:24 p.m. ET), centered off the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Seismological agencies have registered its magnitude at… pic.twitter.com/fkb0nvrQ03
In one footage, a building can be shaking violently, but luckily so far, there have been no reports of any casualties due to the tremors.
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Massive 8.0 ⚡️Magnitude earthquake has struck in Russia watching for tsunami warning in Guam and Hawaii possible. pic.twitter.com/qyXoAGYyGj
American authorities issued a tsunami advisory for areas that include Alaska. In Japan, the weather agency upgraded its tsunami warning, saying waves of up to three metres (9.8 feet) were expected. The waves were expected to hit between 10:00 am and 11:30 am (0100-0230 GMT) along Japan’s Pacific coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.
An evacuation order for the small town of Severo-Kurilsk, south of the peninsula, was declared due to the tsunami threat following the earthquake, Sakhalin Governor Valery Limarenko said on Telegram.
Kamchatka and Russia’s Far East sit on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a geologically active region that is prone to major earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.