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The earthquake was about 250 km from Hokkaido, Japan.
The Meteorological Agency of Japan said on Wednesday that an 8.7 magnitude earthquake occurred near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Because of this, a tsunami warning of up to 1 meter has been issued on the Pacific coast of Japan.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) said immediately after the initial reports that the intensity of the earthquake was 8.7. The epicenter of the earthquake was at a depth of 19.3 km from the ground. Russia did not get any immediate information about the impact on the work.
At the same time, the Japanese agency said that the earthquake struck 4:54 am (according to Japan). No loss is reported yet. According to Japan’s NHK Television, the earthquake was about 250 km from Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan and was only felt light.
The US Geological Survey informed about the 8.7 magnitude earthquake.
5 earthquakes have occurred in Kamchatka this month
Earlier in July itself, there were five powerful earthquakes in the sea near Kamchatka. The largest earthquake of these was 7.4. The epicenter of the earthquake was at a depth of 20 km from the ground.
On November 4, 1952, there was a damage of a 9 -magnitude earthquake in Kamchatka. However, no one was reported dead despite the 9.1 meter high waves in Hawaii.
Alert in 4 American states including California The National Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska, USA, has issued a tsunami warning for parts of Alaska Alusian Island. Also issued monitoring alert for parts of the west coast including California, Oregan, Washington and Hawaii.
This warning also includes a large part of the beach line of Alaska. Here, Tokyo University earthquakers Shinichi Sakai told NHK that if the earthquake is shallow, the earthquake from far away can cause a tsunami to affect Japan.
Japan is part of the ‘Pacific Ring of Fire’. It is one of the highest earthquake in the world.
Why does an earthquake occur? Our earth surface is mainly made up of 7 large and several small tectonic plates. These plates keep floating continuously and sometimes collides with each other. Many times the corners of the plates are twisted by colliding and these plates start to break when there is more pressure. In such a situation, the energy released from the bottom searches for the way out and after this disaster, there is an earthquake.
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