{"id":434685,"date":"2025-09-18T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/434685\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:07:10","slug":"magnitude-7-8-earthquake-shakes-russias-far-east-kamchatka-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/434685\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude-7.8 earthquake shakes Russia&#8217;s far east Kamchatka region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MOSCOW &#8212; A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck near the east coast of Russia\u2019s Kamchatka region, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The quake\u2019s epicenter was 127 kilometers (79 miles) east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and it struck at 6:58 a.m. Friday local time, according to the USGS. It had a depth of 19.5 kms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Pacific Tsunami Warning System briefly issued a tsunami threat but later lifted it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The initial quake was followed by a series of aftershocks of up to magnitude 5.8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The remote Kamchatka region has been hit by a series of powerful earthquakes, including quakes of magnitude-7.4 last week and another one in July. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW &#8212; A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck near the east coast of Russia\u2019s Kamchatka region, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[147536,3907,14333,4179,332,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-434685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-147536","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\/115227816372078015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434685","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=434685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434685\/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=434685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}