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The Tsunami alert triggered after two earthquakes off Russia – Russia: tsunami alert after two
Magnitude earthquakes 6.7 and 7.4 rocked the coast of Kamchatka on Sunday in the Russian Far East.
The earthquakes have touched the open -handed coasts of Kamthatka (illustration image).
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Two earthquakes of magnitude 6.7 then 7.4 occurred on Sunday off the coast of Kamchatka. Nevertheless, in the Russian Far East, leading to the triggering of the Tsunami alert, according to the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS).
The epicenter of these earthquakes is located in the Pacific Ocean. between 130 and 144 kilometers from the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, capital of the Kamthatka region, specifies the USGS.
The Kamthatka peninsula is the meeting point between the Pacific. North American tectonic plates, which makes the region one of the most active seismic areas on the planet.
The Russian peninsula. which separates the russia: tsunami alert after two sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean, is “one of the regions most exposed to earthquakes in the world”, according to the American geophysical service.
Since 1900, seven large -scale earthquakes – of a magnitude greater than or equal to 8.3 – have occurred along this peninsula.
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