{"id":77651,"date":"2025-07-20T09:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77651\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:33:11","slug":"tsunami-threat-over-after-large-quakes-off-russias-pacific-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77651\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami threat over after large quakes off Russia&#8217;s Pacific coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says there is no longer a danger of tsunami waves on Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula after two quakes \u2014 the larger with a magnitude of 7.4 \u2014 struck in the sea nearby on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The larger quake was at a depth of 20 kilometers (12 miles) and was 144 kilometers (89 miles) east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a population of 180,000, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes earlier, a quake with a magnitude of 6.7 was recorded nearby. <\/p>\n<p>The PTWC initially said there was a danger of major tsunami waves but later downgraded its warning before finally saying the danger had passed.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Emergencies Ministry also issued a tsunami warning following the second quake, urging residents of coastal settlements to stay away from the shore. <\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, and the ministry said it had no immediate plans to evacuate residents. <\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 4, 1952, a magnitude 9.0 quake in Kamchatka caused damage but no reported deaths despite setting off 9.1-meter (30-foot) waves in Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says there is no longer a danger of tsunami waves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12635,57,50,257,53701,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-77651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-earthquakes","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-tsunamis","13":"tag-world","14":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114884877034322058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77651","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=77651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}