Tsunami alert after highly effective quakes strike off coast of Russia

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has issued a warning for Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula after two quakes — the bigger with a magnitude of seven.4 — struck within the sea close by on Sunday (July 20, 2025).

The bigger quake was at a depth of 20 kilometers and was 144 kilometers east of town of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a inhabitants of 180,000, in line with the U.S. Geological Survey.

A couple of minutes earlier, a quake with a magnitude of 6.7 was recorded close by.

The German Analysis Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) indicated twin earthquakes of over 6.5 magnitude struck close to the coast of Kamchatka, in Russia’s far east, early on Sunday. It measured the quakes at 6.6 and 6.7 and the depth of each at 10 kilometers.

Measurements of earthquakes typically fluctuate within the first hours after they happen.

There have been no fast reviews of casualties.

On Nov 4, 1952, a magnitude 9.0 quake in Kamchatka brought on harm however no reported deaths regardless of setting off 9.1-meter (30-foot) waves in Hawaii.