A magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 is now among the ten largest ever recorded on the planet.
With a depth of about 12 miles, the shallow quake was recorded at 7:24 p.m. ET approximately 78 miles east-southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Kamchatka and Russia’s Far East sit on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the geologically active region known for intense earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
In a video posted to the Telegram messaging app, Kamchatka Gov. Vladimir Solodov said preliminary information indicates there were no injuries but added that a kindergarten was damaged, according to Reuters.
“Today’s earthquake was serious and the strongest in decades of tremors,” Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov said, per Reuters.
A tsunami of up to 13 feet generated by the quake prompted evacuations and damaged buildings in the transcontinental country. Following the record breaking quake, multiple aftershocks were recorded ranging between a magnitude of 5.2 to 6.9, the USGS reported.
Coasts of Russia, Japan and Hawaii were all subject to warnings of “hazardous tsunami waves” issued by the U.S. Tsunami Warning System. Tsunami alerts were also issued for the entire U.S. West Coast with officials issuing evacuation warnings in Hawaii, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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