Tsunami alert after powerful quakes strike off coast of Russia

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a informing for Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula aft 2 quakes — the larger with a magnitude of 7.4 — struck successful the oversea adjacent connected Sunday (July 20, 2025).

The larger quake was astatine a extent of 20 kilometers (12 miles) and was 144 kilometers (89 miles) eastbound of the metropolis of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a colonisation of 180,000.

Earlier 5.0-magnitude and 6.7-magnitude earthquakes did not initially trigger a tsunami alert, but were followed by a 7.4-magnitude quake astatine 0849 GMT, prompting the USGS to pass that “hazardous tsunami waves are possible” wrong 300 kilometres (186 miles) of the epicentre successful the Pacific, disconnected the metropolis of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.