{"id":420996,"date":"2025-09-13T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420996\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:45:19","slug":"powerful-earthquake-strikes-near-the-east-coast-of-russias-kamchatka-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420996\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful earthquake strikes near the east coast of Russia\u2019s Kamchatka region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MOSCOW &#8212; A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck early Saturday near the east coast of Russia\u2019s Kamchatka region, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The quake\u2019s epicenter was 111.7 kilometers (69.3 miles) east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and had a depth of 39 kms, according to the USGS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Pacific Tsunami Warning System briefly said there was a threat of a possible tsunami from the earthquake but later dropped the threat from its website. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Japan Meteorological Agency said warnings were issued to coastal areas about a slight change in sea levels, but that means the likelihood of damage is minimal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula was hit by five powerful quakes \u2014 the largest with a magnitude of 7.4 \u2014 on July 20, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW &#8212; A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck early Saturday near the east coast of Russia\u2019s Kamchatka region,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[143999,3907,14333,4179,332,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-420996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-143999","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-earthquakes","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115196823137590191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}