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18.09.2025

7.2 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Kamchatka Coast

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On Thursday, the Kamchatka branch of the Federal Research Center for Geophysical Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 off the coast of Kamchatka. The region’s governor, Vladimir Solodov, issued a warning of the possibility of a tsunami along the eastern coast of the peninsula.