FACTBOX: What is known about earthquakes in Kamchatka

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, July 30. /TASS/. The strongest earthquake since 1952 occurred in the Kamchatka region in Russia’s Far East. According to various estimates, its magnitude reached 8.7. A tsunami wave hit the coastal zone of the city of Severo-Kurilsk, the government of the Sakhalin Region told TASS.

TASS has collected the main information about the emergency.

- Seismologists recorded a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 150 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on Wednesday, July 30, around noon local time (around 03:00 Moscow time, 00:00 GMT).

- Later, the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that the magnitude, according to various estimates, reached 8.7.

- The earthquake that hit Kamchatka was felt at the force of between 7 and 8 points.