7.4 off southeastern Kamchatka

[bjdeming]

This has the potential for causing damage in populated areas of Kamchatka, but with the "iron curtain" Putin set in motion around Russia since 2022, ? if we'll ever know.

All I can find out on Russian-language X is "A tsunami threat has been declared for a number of populated areas in Kamchatka, the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations reported." (Google Translate: X did not offer to translate the tweets.)

All I know about southern Kamchatka is from reading up on the dual Decade Volcano there, Avachinsky-Koryaksky.

Petropavlovsk sounds and looks like a pretty cool place, but let's face it: Russia's got military stuff there, too. There is also at least one fairly large town -- Yelizovo -- but I'm not sure if it's on the bay or not.

There are also a number of small communities. This is the "urban" part of Siberia's Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Global Volcanism Program website lists more than a quarter million people within 60-some miles of A and K volcanoes -- not all of them will be vulnerable to tsunamis, of course, but they still must have gotten some shaking.

The USGS Pager, however, is mostly green, which is good.

 

[bjdeming]

From Yelizovo -- that wasn't too bad, actually:





Of course the cats evaporated. Girl, take that vase down permanently, while it's still intact!

PTWC predicts tsunami up to 1 m for parts of Russian coast. Warning for Hawaii was canceled.

 

[bjdeming]

Reportedly all seems well now, and the aftershocks are settling down.

It sounds as though it was a complex series of quakes, with the 7.4 the strongest.



This tweet is not new, but it came up in a search and mentions a tsunami-related legend on the bay where Petropavlovsk sits; that's Koryaksky, I think, in the background -- just a neat Sunday morning factoid about a part of the world most of us have never heard of (I hadn't, anyway, before looking up the Decade Volcanoes.).