Russian Emergencies Ministry: No Tsunami Fears After Kamchatka Quake | News

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations announced on Saturday evening that there are no concerns about the possibility of a Tsunami Marine after a powerful earthquake struck the Kamchatka region in far northeastern Russia.

The Russian Academy of Sciences said the earthquake had a magnitude of 7. Richter scale.

The US National Tsunami Warning Center issued a warning of a tsunami forming off the coast of the region, noting that the earthquake measured 7 on the Richter scale.

And it happened Earthquake Around 7 a.m. Sunday local time, about 90 kilometers east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

For its part, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Observatory reported that a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the remote Kamchatka region.

The observatory said the quake occurred at a depth of 51 kilometers off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka region.