A tsunami warning has been issued after three major earthquakes, one with a magnitude of 7.4, were recorded off the Pacific coast of Russia, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).<\/p>\n
According to the USGS website, three powerful earthquakes occurred in the same area off the coast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky within a span of 32 minutes on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The tsunami alert were issued for Russia and as far as the state of Hawaii in the United States, Reuters news agency reported citing the US National Tsunami Center.<\/p>\n
Two of the tremors registered at magnitude 6.7 and one at magnitude 7.4. Less than 30 minutes before that, a magnitude 5.0 quake was also reported in the same area, the USGS monitor said.<\/p>\n
Three aftershocks were also recorded shortly afterwards one at magnitude 6.6.<\/p>\n
Germany\u2019s GFZ monitor also confirmed that at least one magnitude 6.7 quake was recorded off the east of of Kamchatka Region on Sunday. GFZ later updated it to magnitude 7.4.<\/p>\n
The city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky has a population of over 163,152 people, according to the city\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
The city is located in the Kamchatka Region facing the Pacific, northeast of Japan and west of the US state of Alaska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tsunami warning has been issued after three major earthquakes, one with a magnitude of 7.4, were recorded…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12635,440,50,257,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-77511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-earthquakes","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114884534826819315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}