Solodov wrote on Telegram: “A warning of a possible tsunami has been issued for the eastern coast of the island. The public is being alerted.” Earlier, the Kamchatka branch of the Federal Research Center “Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences” reported on its website about a record off the Kamchatka coast. Governor Vladimir Solodov later announced that all services were put on high alert following the earthquake, with a tsunami warning issued for the eastern coast of Kamchatka and public alerts released. Last Monday, the Kamchatka branch of the Russian Geophysical Research Center announced that a 5.3 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast. The center explained that the tremor was recorded at 13:39 local time (04:39 Moscow time), with its epicenter about 111 kilometers from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and at a depth of approximately 47.6 kilometers. This earthquake is part of the increasing activity Kamchatka has experienced since July 30, when the region was hit by its strongest earthquake since 1952, with a magnitude of 8.8. Seismologists confirm that the intensity of these events is gradually decreasing, yet the level of seismic activity is still described as “extremely high.” The local authorities in the region have declared a state of natural emergency since the end of last July.
